I'm not sure what the point is here. How does this bear on the fact that ADM conspired (with others) to fix prices, as proven in a court of law? Are WSJ and DOJ required to be complicit in all conspiracies?
> 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.
>
ADM wasn't very successful in this instance. But what does it matter that the case at hand disproves the charge. Conspiracies MUST NOT exist. This is axiomatic on the left.
> Doug
>
Elsewhere Doug wrote:
> If They can kill JFK, might as well give up.
While I don't have convictions one way or the other on the JFK assassination, this argument is common and fallacious. After accepting the (false) premise, the reader is left to complete the syllogism: we shouldn't give up, therefore They didn't kill JFK.
-- bill
"Truth unfolds in time through a communal process." CQ