Open Source capitalists

[Carrol Cox]

Right. Three quick points. (1) I was consciously indulging in "bending
the stick" (Draper, in a defense of WITBD does remark that he personally
opposes bending the stick, because when a stick gets bent too often it
gets bent out of shape). (2) Capitalism _cannot_ survive a strong
working class -- but what that means is a matter of endless discussion.
(3) "Nation-state/imperialism" are of a different order than the other
three tensions -- which is one of the reasons Hardt/Negri are not so
much wrong as pure fluff, a mere filibuster, an academic hoax.

Carrol

Kelley wrote:
> 
> funny, the same thing can be said about race and racism,
> nation-state/imperialism, sexuation/gender and hetero/sexism, and so on. no
> one has yet made (on this list) a convincing argument otherwise-at least
> insofar as they tend to  advance arguments that conceive of race,
> sexuality, nation as static entities.
> 
> >Capitalism would get along fine with a perfect set of election laws and
> >a splendid control of campaign finance. And so on and so on. But every
> >one of these will-o-the-wisps draws good people away from the struggle
> >against capitalism.
> >
> >Carrol