Gleeful Evil (Was RE: [lbo-talk] Avoiding Bad Taste)

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Mon Oct 11 14:45:35 PDT 2004


On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, andie nachgeborenen wrote:


> I find it odd that in a list full of Marxists, it
> takes a liberal democrat to remind you of what old
> Whiskers used to say, that he painted the capitalist
> in no sense coleur de rose, but that after all the guy
> was just a bearer of social relations. It serves no
> point to malign them as individuals -- some deserve
> it, some don't. But the problem isn't bad apples. It's
> the barrel.
>
> jks

Perhaps a more apt metaphor: the problem is the orchard of trees that produce them?

Miles



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