-Thomas
--- Steven McGraw <stmcgraw at vt.edu> wrote:
>
> Privileged individuals should not "struggle to get
> as much as they can."
> That is the logic of a market.
>
>
>
>
> >What is the use of pitting the one against the
> other?
> >
>
> I am not pitting anyone against anyone else. The
> professional and the
> laboring class are already in competition.
>
>
> >
> >Pugliese has told me he had encountered people on
> the
> >Left who complain that Martin Jay, author of
> >"Dialectical Imagination", drives a BMW.
>
> A Neiman Marxist, so to speak?
>
> >So what
> >is he supposed to do? Ask UC Berkeley to pay him
> less
> >so that he can be poor and "look" like somebody's
> >stereotype of a "leftist".
> >
>
>
> Yes. Or make donations to some worthy cause. Why
> do you consider this an
> absurd idea? Are you also against a graduated
> income tax?
>
> Consuming at a responsible level does not mean
> "being poor." Jay's
> obnoxious habit of tooling about in a BMW may not
> weaken his analysis,
> which I hope we can look at with some objectivity to
> avoid resorting to ad
> hominem, but everyone has a moral obligation not to
> take more than his or
> her share. This might even entail (gasp) making
> personal sacrifices.
>
===== <<Be like me! The Primal Mother, eternally creative, eternally impelling into life,
eternally drawing satisfaction from the ceaseless flux of phenomena.>>
-Nietzsche, "The Birth of Tragedy"
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