>>Doug's remark about "capitalist logic" is both political and relevant.
>
>What's the point, that a demand for reparations is not a demand for
>revolutionary socialism? Is it an objection to a program for a
>reform within capitalism that it must obey the logic and forms of
>bourgeois legality? Of which, by the way, in my tediously liberal
>manner, I am an unabashed proponent, by the way.
Besides, the objection that Justin's answer follows the "capitalist logic" doesn't make sense in _this thread_ (though it may in others). To ask for "practicalities" of reparations means to ask for what is practical in the present under capitalism, so of course all good-faith replies (like Justin's) to the question will follow the "capitalist logic."
If Doug wants an answer that doesn't follow the "capitalist logic," he should refrain from asking for "practicalities."
Yoshie