Fwd: 10 troubling facts : 1999 UN Human Development

[Michael Yates]

Well, I suppose if you take the masters' tools to be capital and if you
suppose that embedded in tis capital is a very oppressive social
relationship, then there might be something to it.  For example, the
masters use Tayloristic practices in their factories and their machines
are built with Tayloristic principles in mind.  It might not be a very
good idea for us to use such tools ourselves in building a new society.
On the other hand, many current technologies and the machines in which
they are embedded seem eminently usable to tear the masters' houses
down.

michael yates

Liza Featherstone wrote:
> 
> Actually, what *do* other people think of that Lorde aphorism? I see it
> quoted everywhere and I really hate it. What do other people think it even
> means? And why is something so apparently pointless quoted so often? I think
> it's one of those dramatic slogans that substitutes for analysis, but maybe
> also sort of an excuse for totally ineffectual oppositional politics. Anyone
> have a different and perhaps more charitable take?