Consumption Re: David Corn: troubling origins of the anti-war movement

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Thu Nov 7 13:19:44 PST 2002



>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
> > There was a thread on LBO in the past year or so in which everyone was
>> ganging up on SUVs; I forget my exact arguments, but in general I
>> thought it was pretty silly to blame people for their consumption habits
> > -- or to blame people individually for anything for that matter.
>================
>
>Still addicted to classes without subjects heh Carrol? If you can't hold
>people responsible for consumption how can you blame them for pathologies in
>the mode of production, property etc. or anything else? You can't blame a
>class, a class is not a subject.
>
>Ian

We recently heard the tragic news that Alec Ramsdell died of a heroin overdose, the news that depressed me terribly. He was just 31. A promising musician and poet, well loved by his family and friends. Whom are we to blame? -- Yoshie

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