first anti-capitalist

Ian Murray seamus2001 at attbi.com
Mon Aug 12 21:29:03 PDT 2002


----- Original Message - From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 8:43 PM Subject: Re: first anti-capitalist


>
> > Just how would we know when we "arrived" at a static society?
> >
> > Ian
>
>
> "We" wouldn't know -- because we'll be dead by then. They won't
have to
> know: they will have better things to do perhaps.
>
> But also note: An old-fashioned logical positivist analysis could
be
> given to the pairs "dynamic/chaotic" and "static/stable." The
> contrasting terms name the same state of affairs from contrasting
> perspectives. If you like it, it's dynamic; if it's destroying
you, it's
> chaotic. If you are in misery, it's static. If you are pleasantly
> engaged, it's stable.

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What do you mean by *the same*? Wherewhen does contrast begin and sameness end............


>
> I would say that on the whole capitalism is, for most of the
earth's
> peoples of the last few centuries, more chaotic than dynamic. We
need
> rest.
>
> Carrol

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We need a dynamics of shared prosperity and the leisure and health it can bring.........

Ian



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