>From: Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Choices (was Re: Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds
>to critics
>Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:42:20 -0400
>
>At 11:06 AM 9/28/01 -0400, Doug wrote:
> >Yeah, but it's not like you can just choose "finanzkapital." It
> >depends on an entire imperial hierarchy, which produces inequalities
> >and exclusions.
>
>
>Doug, better red than dead - an old saying went. Translation: certian
>political arrangements may be far from ideal, but at least they offer
>something, like minimum security and living standards. I think the same
>applies to finanzkapital - the groups it oppresses are incomparably better
>off than even non-oppressed groups under islamic fundamentalism, and
>goddess have mercy for those whom the fundamentalists oppress.
uh, sure you realize that the minimum living standards of Western Europe and the US is funded by the depredations of Shell and United Fruit in the Third World, not to mention IMF and the World Bank? So when you say it offers something, the question is to whom?
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