Reparations -- Yes? (was Re: Joy In Horowitzville)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>>>
>>>>Well, Nathan, I'm trying to steer LBO-talk away from its 
>>>>addiction to Horowitz & toward reparations (among other topics). 
>>>>You are not helping!  :-)
>>>
>>>How do you imagine reparations being "operationalized," as the 
>>>social scientists say?
>>>
>>>Doug
>>
>>Expropriate the expropriators.
>
>Ok, so you don't know.
>
>Doug

Without expropriating the expropriators, how do you possibly propose 
to repair the damage done by slavery & its legacy continuing to the 
present?

It seems to me that reparations of any substance are impossible under 
capitalism.  So, unlike Gordon, I don't think that "reparations are 
liberalism."  I'm not against Nathan's proposal of linking "the fight 
against the estate tax repeal" with the campaigns for reparations, 
but I think that the estate tax doesn't yield much.

I imagine that you are against the campaign, since you are a fan of 
Adolph Reed.  If you are against it, what's your alternative?

Yoshie