You gotta be cruel to be Keynes

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Dec 22 08:17:38 PST 1999


Mattcapri at aol.com wrote:


>Anyway, not having read Christian Parenti's new book which I am told deals
>with this very question I am interested in how people feel abou the term
>"Prison Industrial Complex."

Christian is pretty skeptical about this PIC. He argues the sector is much smaller than people think, much more trouble to wardens and managers, and rarely profitable. When I talked with him about it, good Marxist that he is, he agreed that you just can't beat "free" labor under capitalism.

Doug



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