Chomsky on Vietnam

[Bradford DeLong]

>One of the genuine contradictions of neoliberal ideology is, it *needs* an
>ironclad, smokestack, Old Economy Stalinism as a symbolic counterweight to
>its weightless, bodiless (and, with Enron, profitless) speculations. Take
>that away, and suddenly those strange messages from Morpheus start popping
>up on your email...
>
>-- Dennis

Yes. It's astonishing how many people (especially working for the 
entertainment industry) suddenly race for Lockean conceptions of 
permanent ownership of the products of mental labor when they sense 
that the "invisible hand" social welfare justification of property 
rights in information goods has been stripped away.

Of course, I have yet to meet anyone who has searched for the heirs 
of Balaam-Ish-Baal to pay him for their use of his idea to use a 
stylized picture of an ox to represent the phoneme "a"...

Brad DeLong