>I think this is also a very Marxian idea. Isn't it a
>problem with capitalism that it degrades taste and
>human skill and accomplishment, producing stunted
>monsters? Isn't it supposed to be an advantage of
>socialism that it will enable people to develop their
>talents and tastes in a more refined way? Thus making
>them better, more complete, more fullly rounded
>people?
Yeah, isn't that a problem for Marxists/socialists? You want to overturn the existing order because it's corrosive and brutal, but there's an impulse to treat the bourgeoisie as decadent and the workers as noble? If poverty and exploitation aren't damaging, why do you want to end them?
Doug