wicked projects

Henry C.K. Liu hliu at mindspring.com
Sun May 23 20:48:21 PDT 1999


It seems to me that the US Constitution is reasonably good document. The problem is the regressive interpretation by a Supreme Court that bent on making American society more repressive and exploitative than it needs be. The Constitution never once mentions capitalism, nor does it forbid socialism. The fact that America is a capitalistic system is not a constitutional fiat.

Henry C.K. Liu

Doug Henwood wrote:


> Kelly wrote:
>
> >the relentless critique crowd
> >never seems to have anything else to offer, accept some vague claim that
> >it'll be all better once we get rid of capitalism.
>
> You're the one blaming "capitalism" for our political torpor, not me. You
> could easily criticize me for being timid, bourgeois even, for paying so
> much attention to legal structures.
>
> Margaret wrote:
>
> >Perfection-or-nothing positions may warm the cockles
> >(and mussels) of our self-satisfaction, but they do
> >little good in the real world. And if we're not
> >trying to do good in the real world, what the hell kind
> >of socialists are we, anyway?
>
> Would you please tell me how a critique of the U.S. Constitution and the
> machinery it has spawned is a "perfection-or-nothing" position, a departure
> from the "real world," a term that's not very clear in this context, but
> has some suggestion of the status quo? If you're trying to figure out why
> the U.S. has the most depoliticized political discourse in the known world,
> isn't the institutional struture of the place worth examining? Isn't it
> worth pointing out that the damn near impregnable rule of money was
> actually a design feature?
>
> Doug



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