[lbo-talk] World Economic Forum Weeps Bitter Tears For Lost

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Mon Jan 26 18:37:43 PST 2004


----- Original Message ----- From: <jjlassen at chinastudygroup.org>

Ian,

Pre-capitalist oppressors could not borg us, even if they tried. They did not have the power. To borg is to convert everything into a single self-animated machine. How could despots or feudal rulers do that without the forces and conditions of production that capitalism wrought?

Cheers,

Jonathan

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I thought we were talking capitalism, excluding pre-capitalist social formations. What about Vaucanson's automata? They're older than Babbage, don't they count?

Ian



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