Body As Capital

LeoCasey at aol.com LeoCasey at aol.com
Fri May 18 08:09:32 PDT 2001



> "My body," he replied, "My body is my capital."
>
> So, there you go. What untold fortune he was going to squeeze out of his
> body, I do not know.

This is standard-issue libertarian (fundamentalist liberal) dogma on the Net.

May be. But it is also classic John Locke. The only question is why those of us running around with our bodies as our only capital accept such tripe.

Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass --

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