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>On Nov 15, 2003, at 9:14 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>>Ruppert is a conspiracist nut, no? And what makes you think Soros
>>represents American capital?
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>If you have capital you represent capital, no?
No, not at all. Someone with capital is a representative of capital, as any Marxist knows! Capital is a social relation, and it only has meaning in a society organized into workers & owners. And the minority of capital can rule the majority of labor because they're well-organized politically as a class and essentially run the state. The central tendency of capital is to Soros' right - he's an outlier. How many other big American capitalists besides Soros think of themselves as social democrats (which is what his pal Anatole Kaletsky once told me)? Soros commands lots of respect on Wall Street as a brilliant speculator, but almost no one shares his politics.
Doug