Who is a capitalist nowadays? (was Re: Negri on globo

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jan 9 17:22:51 PST 2002


John K. Taber wrote:


>Based on purely personal, and therefore subjective experience, I
>think the guy who owns a plastic plant in Tennessee, or something
>similar in Houston, is more of a capitalist than the CEO of IBM.

But the capital stock of the U.S. is mostly owned by the likes of IBM, and not small plastics plants in Tennessee. Does that means that the means of production aren't really under capitalist control?

Doug



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