Democrats and capital (was: Re: BdL on BE)

Ian Murray seamus2001 at home.com
Thu Jun 7 14:09:01 PDT 2001



> Archer.Todd at ic.gc.ca wrote:
> >
> > Wojtek said:
> >
> > >The "capital" is not an unified,
> > >omniscient force - in fact, there is no such a thing as capital,
only
> > >
>
> This is another example of what I mean when I say nominalism is a
> powerful tool but a vicious master. Following similar nominalist
logic
> back in the '30s Stuart Chase (author of _The Tyranny of Words_)
said
> that there was no such thing as "fascism" (that it had no referent
in
> the slang of the times). Kenneth Burke is very good on such
superficial
> anti-realism.


> Carrol
================

I think the below is what Wojtek is getting at Carrol...It's a forest and the trees thang........

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Ian



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