<DIV>I do not disagree with you altogether...but mortality and fear of death will be there with or without capitalism (they were there during the economic models preceeding capitalism) and I think that is what motivates people to seek refuge in the things capitalism best provides. Carrol Cox <cbcox@ilstu.edu> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> "W. Kiernan" wrote: > > (Of course not one in > twenty ever bothered, then or now, to think about how we ordinary > citizens come to "know" these things, how tenuous that "knowledge" > actually is.) > I hope more than 1 in 20 -- but my whole view of politics is, in a way, grounded in that recognition, and on the principle that, in the abstract, the "individual" has a perfect right to that tenuousness. I'm really amazed that so many people who hate capitalism can't see the damage that ordinary everyday life under capitalism does to people. And hcnce that intelligent anti-capitalist political theory must be grounded in accepting that fact and devising strategies and tactics to counter it. Carrol ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!? <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/search/mailsig/*http://search.yahoo.com">The New Yahoo! Search</a> - Faster. Easier. Bingo.