Doug
> >Yup, but isn't this time drippingly rich with possibility? The bourgeoisie
> >fucked up bigtime, and lots of people - including many of the bourgies -
> >know it. Opportunities like this don't come often. I'm feeling energized.
Chris Burford:
> I agree. Leftists should not welcome the burden getting placed on working
> people, and infact should argue for a fight back against this - but there
> are a number of opportunities to attack the weakness of the system as a
> coherent way of organising the means of production, and its managers. We
> should be calling among many other things, for a strengthened audit of
> companies that is social, and environmental as well as economic and
> financial, and could be held transparently every six months and not every
> year.
>
> That would start to transform the question of who owns the means of
> production.
I don't see how shaping up bourgeois practices would do this, especially since the shapings-up generally proposed are through bourgeois government. If there's one thing the bourgeoisie understand, it's how to deal with regulation and make it work in their favor.
-- Gordon