Mormans as Marxists

Charles Brown CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Tue Jan 22 12:22:12 PST 2002


-Does this mean a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush , but fifty in the bush is a different kettle of fish ?

CB

-- "Burke ever held, and held rightly, that it can seldom be right toŠ sacrifice a present benefit for a doubtful advantage in the futureŠ. It is not wise to look too far ahead; our powers of prediction are slight, our command over results infinitesimal. It is therefore the happiness of our own contemporaries that is our main concern; we should be very chary of sacrificing large numbers of people for the sake of a contingent end, however advantageous that may appearŠ. We can never know enough to make the chance worth taking. There is this further consideration that is often in need of emphasis: it is not sufficient that the state of affairs which we seek to promote should be better than the state of affairs which preceded it; it must be sufficiently better to make up for the evils of the transitionŠ"

--John Maynard Keynes



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