[lbo-talk] Accumulation (was IRA & ETA)

[Carrol Cox]

Ted Winslow wrote:
> 
>  
> 'Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men.  This lays
> cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps
> honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still
> teaches folk to practise villanies, and to know every godless deed.'
> (Antigone, lines 295-301)

Creon, charging the messenger (Sentry) with the crime, or as the Sentry
says, 

	Oh its terrible when the one who does the judging

	judges all things wrong.

The passage is tricky.

And later on Creon says of Tiresias,

	Oh his ilk has tried to sell me short

	and ship me off for years.*

That is reality itself (or its voice) accused of taking bribes.

Carrol

*The editors of the text I looked this up in, Wilkie & Hurt, _Literature
of the Western World_, have a grotesque footnote here, which I never
noticed while teaching from the text: "Ironically, Oedipus had accused
Tiresias and Creon himself of a similar, and equally imaginary,
mercenary plot." Hah! Oedipus Tyrannus was written 10 years after
_Antigone_! Instead of "had accused" it should be "was to accuse."