>From: "Eubulides" <paraconsistent at comcast.net>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Indiana on Conspiracies
>Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 18:23:57 -0700
>
>
>----- 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).
>
>(snip)
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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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