Post leftism

[joanna bujes]

At 07:19 AM 08/21/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> > Capitalism can't exist (and couldn't come
> > into existence) without a great deal of coercion -- but what makes
> > capitalism capitalism is that the actual extraction of surplus is
> > performed through "economic" means rather than (as in all tributary
> > modes of production) through direct coersion.

Agreed and I understand why this point is definitionally important. Still, 
when the workers organize to change anything, the men with guns show up. 
Guns are very coercive.

Joanna