Tobacco capital hit again

[Chris Burford]

At 08:45 21/10/99 +0200, you wrote:
>From: Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org>
>
>
>>Big tobacco capital has been punished again for failing to heed Marx's
>>injunctions on the merits of social production controlled by social
>>foresight....
>
>Really? I thought it had more to do with the Blair/Clinton moral crusade
>which paints ordinary people as helpless dupes of tobacco advertising and
>pathetic victims of nicotine dependency, needing a more repressive and
>interfering state to protect them. Some of us might live a bit longer as a
>result but look at the trade-offs.
>
>How is it that Chris continues to find progressive tendencies in some of the
>worst elements of capital's experiments in reshaping the way it dominates
>the world?
>
>
>Russell

How is it that Russell cannot? 

Perhaps at heart his goals are merely those of a radical libertarian.

Chris Burford

London