Lefty despair

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Mon Sep 23 22:39:10 PDT 2002


Jenny wrote:


> >I'm not sure which Nation piece you are talking about.
>
>Ah jeez, the archives freeze up my feeble little mac. 'The Men from JINSA,'
>or something. 'bout a month ago. Heirs to the Committee on the Present
>Danger.

Was there a thread on it? I missed it. Will look into the archive later.


> >On the matter
>>of small business, I happen to agree with Doug, but we have to
>>realize that the Small Business Is Beautiful crowd probably don't
>>share Doug's political goal, theory, etc., so, within their theory
>>and in terms of their goal, it may make sense to prefer small
>>business to big business (it all depends on what sort of society you
>>want and how you want to get there). From their point of view, no
>>doubt our outlook on small business looks dogmatic.
>
>Well, I'd like to be told when my goals are screwed up. Do you really think
>most arguments like this are (a) clashes of immutable dogma or (b) clashes of
>irreconcilable interests?

I suppose small business owners have an objective (and some workers who have an aspiration to become "their own bosses" one day have a subjective) interest in the Small Business Is Beautiful ideology. Also, unless you have a vision of socializing the means of production one day, the kind of life portrayed in Robert Fitch's article on Emilia-Romagna (@ <http://www.wisc.edu/uwcc/info/bologna.html>) may look attractive to you (I don't know if Fitch's portrayal of Emilia-Romagna is accurate or idealized). -- Yoshie

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