Grumpy lefties and VENONA

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Dec 17 09:02:41 PST 1999


bill fancher wrote:


>Of course, there is the inconvenient fact that conspiracies do exist. We
>might look to the recent ADM lysine price fixing convictions as an
>example.

So why did the Wall Street Journal investigate ADM and the government successfully prosecute them? There's a difference between a criminal conspiracy and conspiracy as the normal mode of operation. "Conspiracy" seems like a vastly oversimplified version of class analysis, and one that treats the conspirators as almost always successful.

Doug



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