>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 12/17/99 12:02PM >>>
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.
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Charles: If we could get a huge fraction of the population to think of capitalism as organized crime, that would be one giant step for humankind toward socialist consciousness.
CB