I hope that California's deregulation debacle will save us from ads pitching morally correct brands of electricity!
At 8:18 PM -0600 1/21/01, Carrol Cox wrote:
>It seemed to me that the first two responses, from doug &
>yoshie, gave a nearly exhaustive political analysis of the
>issue of replacing political (i.e., collective) judgment with
>inividualist moralism. Such individualist moralism is
>primarily a rejection of class solidarity, replacing it with
>mere private priggishness or national chauvinism.
And, for once, I wholeheartedly agree with Leo Casey:
At 3:39 PM -0500 1/21/01, LeoCasey at aol.com wrote:
>There is, to my mind, one -- and one only -- criteria for "boycotting" a
>particular product. That is: is there an effective, organized mass boycott
>which could result in some really change in corporate policy for the better?
>One boycotted non-union grapes or lettuce to the end of having corporate
>agriculture recognize and negotiate with a union for the farmworkers who
>picked the produce. And so on.
>
>Anything else is a modern day monastic moralism, in which one separates
>oneself from the corrupt world, rather than seeks to transform it.
>
>Leo Casey
Yoshie