Post leftism

joanna bujes joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com
Wed Aug 21 09:39:47 PDT 2002


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



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