Carrol, your call for praising capitalism is, to me, all of a piece with the chortling expressed elsewhere on this list about the Italian "radical intellectual woman" who apparently failed to acknowledge capitalism's you've-come-a-long-way-baby contribution to her quality of life. I think it accomplishes nothing to stare in the rearview mirror and expresses wonderment about the distance capitalism has covered. To me, the critical question is, what is the next stage in human social advance and how do we get on with it already? The leisure and literacy that capitalism has created are ultimately fatally compromised by relentless merchandising and the substitution of commodities for creativity.
Carl
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