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Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Aug 13 10:03:29 PDT 2002


billbartlett at dodo.com.au wrote:


>Well it happens. I saw somewhere that the widow Onassis took a job
>in a publishing firm for a while. She would have had to be
>considered a full member of the capitalist class no matter how you
>cut it.

She was rich, no doubt about that. But was she a capitalist in the same sense that her late husband Ari was, as a tanker magnate, or her previous late husband, as CEO of the world bourgeoisie? Gore Vidal said that Jackie loved money and publicity and little else. That makes her the opposite of a capitalist in some ways - an old-fashioned rich person who enjoyed hoarding and/or spending, but not throwing her capital into the M-C-M' circuitry.

Doug



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