Doug Henwood wrote:
> Chuck0 wrote:
>
> >[clip]
> >Kill all the dot-coms. Death to e-commerce.
>
> Um, I'm not sure I get this. [clip]
> but is electronic commerce itself
> intrinsically evil? I could imagine it playing a role in my
> democratically planned socialist utopia.
>
> And since when do we cheer mass layoffs?
Perhaps one could say that this hurrah for unemployment is a function of making corporations rather than capitalism the enemy? Capitalism will only fall (if it does) from a combination of internal contradictions and organized 'external'* blows; corporations may be attacked one by one by hippy guerillas, and if another one simply springs up to replace the one destroyed, who cares -- it's still a victory.
Carrol
*_external_ It would be more accurate, of course, to say something like "a special kind of internal"