[lbo-talk] Indiana on Conspiracies

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Sun Jun 13 18:23:57 PDT 2004


----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Wanzala" <jwanzala at hotmail.com>

The necessary proof of such a conspiracy, if we choose to call it that, often turns up 25 or 50 years after the fact, when the release of classified documents churns up no public outcry or indictments. Such was the recent case with the declassified revelation that the late Connecticut senator Prescott Bush, grandfather of the current president, along with his law partner W. Averill Harriman, a former governor of New York, managed a number of concerns on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen. These included the Union Banking Corporation, seized under the Trading With the Enemy Act on October 20, 1942 (Office of Alien Property Custodian, Vesting Order No. 248), Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation (Vesting Order No. 259), and the Holland-American Trading Corporation (Vesting Order No. 261).

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Except that the above was not a conspiracy, but the ordinary business of capitalism.

Societies are not self-transparent.

Capitalism is not a conspiracy no matter how one chooses to periodize and episodize the manner in which various factions of the capitalist class organize to achieve their aims outside the purview of others. You are suffering from a congenital case of post hoc ergo prompter hoc [lack of] reasoning and vulgar functionalism. Get over it. You're boring the rest of us already.

Sheeeesh.

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