[lbo-talk] Change [was: Kees van der Pijl]

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Yoshie:
> According to the OED, the word "stagnate" made its first appearance 
> in 1669; the word "stagnant," in 1666; "stagnancy," in 1665.  The 
> world had began to change in capital's image, and it was no longer 
> good enough to do as well as before.
> -- 

I think the world started to change (at least from the human
perspective) when one of our prehistoric ancestors picked up a stick
(Strauss's _Also Sprach Zarathustra_ playing in the background) and hit
his compatriot over the head with it to get ahead of him in the pecking
order.  Everything else that followed has been just an ever-escalating
cycle of actions and reactions to that first hit.  Capital was just one
actor in that development, and often did not get what it wanted, as the
European welfare state and US New deal illustrate.

Wojtek