>Sorry for reading this out of context...I pulled this
>from Joanna's comment. However, I dont think respect
>for the individual is the right term. What happens
>under capitalism by way of "commodity fetishism" is
>that the social nature of work gets hidden more and
>more under and so we get the impression that the world
>is created by lone individuals.
That is my point.
The contradiction in the process of production.
That is: Capitalist apologists _have_ to create a theory wherein the "boss" is the creator of wealth.
And if you take his/her exalted rights... and use the other righteous faith in the individual produced by capitalism's need to create a mobile workforce (destroy family and church)... you get Human Rights Codes... then extend them across the globe...
Well, either they shut up about individual rights, or extend them.
And if they extend them... ain't that socialism?
Ken.
-- An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
-- Henry Ford