NAFTA ain't happening by MC5 Despite the ballyhoo, the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) is not happening as planned. The Wall Street Journal admitted as much June 19. Avocados cost 30 cents a pound in Mexico, one mile away from where they cost $4 a pound in the United $tates. Avocados grow in California and Mexico both, but U.$. avocados are more than ten times the price. Often we hear from the phonies calling themselves "Marxist" and "proletarian" that Third World countries are poor because their people do not work hard while the people in the imperialist countries do work hard. The pro-imperialist chauvinists deny that it is a matter of imperialist exploitation, yet they cannot explain why avocados cost more than 10 times as much in California than in Mexico. Next the chauvinists will be telling us that a pound of U.$. avocados is worth 10 pounds of Mexican ones. Such is where the mists of racism lead--stupidity. Out of $250 million of avocados sold in the United $tates each year, only $30 million comes from Mexico. Special interests inherent to capitalism went to the U.S. government and gained protectionist policies. Tuna is also half as expensive in Mexico. In that case, the environmentalists have succeeded in targeting the Mexicans for not catching "dolphin safe" tuna. By some old methods of catching tuna, dolphins get caught in the nets and die. We have yet to hear any pseudo-environmentalists call for opening the border to let in Third World laborers to speed up production of non-polluting equipment and we never hear them intervene on the side of the Third World when it uses less polluting production processes. The Amerikan Teamsters Union has also succeeded in stopping Mexican trucks from crossing the border, despite a treaty saying they should be able to ever since 1995. The Teamsters say the trucks are not safe, because Mexican standards are too low. One way or another, the Amerikans maintain their reasons for preventing free trade. Although the capitalists and their apologists have talked about a world without tariffs and trade freely flowing for centuries, it never happens. Special interests always prevent the utopia of "free trade." Ironically, only under communism is there a chance for free trade to finally occur. Special interests centered on protecting the jobs and property of a minority will disappear. People will also be more highly united on environmental and labor standards. Since capitalism teaches every persyn for him or herself, capitalism has no chance of ever unifying the world's people sufficiently for global free trade to happen. Instead, capitalist conflicts over trade led to two world wars in the 20th century. Note: Wall Street Journal 19June2000, p. a23.