[lbo-talk] RE: Film Notes

Brian Siano siano at mail.med.upenn.edu
Thu Oct 23 13:47:06 PDT 2003


Eubulides wrote:


>----- 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.
>>
>>
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>Have you ever worked in a capitalist firm?
>
I think a University'd count as a "capitalist firm."



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