[lbo-talk] RE: Film Notes

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Thu Oct 23 13:30:38 PDT 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>


> In fact economic competition is only
> possible if there is total cooperation within the economic unit. It is
> only sports (not even war) which involves anything like "self-conscious
> competition" in the present, that is, with the agent consciously
> competing rather than merely attempting to perform some non-competitive
> activity.
>
> In capitalist society "competition" is a metaphor rather than a
> description of the "real," and that is what creates the illusion of
> competition as a pervasive element in human life.

===================

Have you ever worked in a capitalist firm?

Ian



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list