Wal-Mart and the Strip-Mining of America

K d-m-c at worldnet.att.net
Thu Nov 12 12:17:20 PST 1998



>Is the only choice Wal-Marts or the petit bourgeoisie? Really? Is the True
>Marxist Position to cheer on the heirs of Sam Walton? Has what Marx called
>the civilizing power of capital been reduced to big retail boxes surrounded
>by parking lots? There's nothing progressive about that - it's fragmenting,
>alienating, exploitative, and ecocidal. It's barbarism in overdrive, and
>the hell with it, I say.

And, more importantly, WalMart NEVER has enough tops to match the bottoms (and vice verse) in the mix 'n' match section. So, I say: dump 'em.

Snit



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