[lbo-talk] Servant culture

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Tue Aug 12 13:40:59 PDT 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "Wojtek Sokolowski" <sokol at jhu.edu>


> This is a faulty logic. A factory owner may use profit extracted from
> the factory workers to lead a parasitic and decadent life style, yet
> nobody would argue that the employment of factory workers should be
> terminated on those grounds. When it comes to service employment,
> however, such an unwarranted conclusion is being drawn. That is yet
> another indication that what passes for the Left in this country is
> often puritanical moralizing in disguise.

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Actually, since many leftists find the system of property and contract law that constitutes contemporary capitalism largely but not exhaustively determinative of class/exploitative relations, they have called for the transformation of said laws. Of course, that too is considered mere moralizing ressentiment by libertarians, liberals etc.

Ian



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