Capitalism defends itself

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Mar 15 08:32:16 PST 1999


Rakesh Bhandari wrote:


>>you (Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>) wrote:
>>
>>>Stossel once described his journalistic mission as explaining the beauties
>>>of the "free market" to the public.
>
>Stossel ain't half the man that Mrs. Marcet or Miss Martineau were (see Guy
>Routh The Origin of Economic Ideas on how these two 19th century writers
>popularized the lessons of political economy for the working man). Stossel
>is just a snide idiot. Sorry to raise the decadence problem, but really
>with Stossels as popular apologists bourgeois society has no future.

Who says bourgeois society needs sophisticated apologists? What does it have in the way of critics these days?

Doug



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