Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
> >Ian, if I were to choose between finanzkapital and islamic fundamentalism,
> >I would not think twice before choosing the former. I think that most
> >people would make a similar choice. Only those who are completely blinded
> >by religious zeal or ideology would do otherwise.
This puts Wojtek solidly in the seminar room, wholly insulated from
human interaction. It is only in the seminar that one can abstractly
choose among alternatives without any sense whatever of the struggles
and mass transformations which are a precondition or that choice having
other than merely academic content. He speaks of world systems as though
they were shirt colors one could select from the counters at Walmart.
>
Carrol
> Yeah, but it's not like you can just choose "finanzkapital." It
> depends on an entire imperial hierarchy, which produces inequalities
> and exclusions.
>
> Doug