Aaagh. Capitalism is about capital and about profits. It has no content -- or rather -- its content is the fact of the dispossession of the mass of people of the right to own anything except their labor power. That's the "content" that generates the profits. The rest of us just have to decide whether it makes sense to organize life around that.
Joanna
Jon Johanning wrote:
> On Dec 2, 2004, at 2:24 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote:
>
>> You can hate GM as a model but at least they engineer stuff. You can
>> spit upon Microsoft (and every freedom loving person should -
>> regularly and with vigor) but at least they make stuff that requires
>> an understanding of real things (for example, the x86 CPU architecture).
>>
>> But Wal-Mart as hero?
>
>
> Pure capitalist SOP, my friend. For capitalists, it matters not a whit
> how you extract surplus value -- by "making things" or "just selling
> them." What matters, the sole thing that matters for the pure
> capitalist, is how much you can extract.
>
> I don't know how many times I've heard the last few days about
> Wal-Mart playing the role that Ford did back in the 1910s, as the
> leading US corporation. If a giant corporation either made or sold
> condoms for shtupping pigs and did it as impressively as Wal-Mart
> rakes in the dough, it would be on the front cover of The Economist, too.
>
>
> Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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> The mass of man[sic]kind is divided into two classes, the Sancho
> Panzas who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don
> Quixotes with a sense for ideals, but mad. -- George Santayana
> (Interpretations of Poetry annd Religion)
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