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

[Jose Rodriguez & Sally Everson]

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> 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.

Or maybe the change happened when the others cheered when a bully clobbered
his compatriot instead of throwing him in a cave and rolling a boulder over
it ....
It seems to take a whole lot of people to submit to the few who have the
desire (or need?) to dominate ...

Sally


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