[lbo-talk] voluntary simplicity as secularized calvinism (or, how to achieve a state of grace by buying locally)

[Mike Ballard]

On Monday 28 March 2005 07:28 pm, Miles Jackson wrote:
>If we're
>working together for our mutual benefit, rather than individual
>profit, we have little or no incentive to befoul our own nest.  

tully responded:

In my completely unscientific study of differences between right and 
left, the main difference I could nail down best was the answer to  
the question:  "Do you believe that people in general are good 
hearted?"  With few exceptions, the left answers yes and the right 
answers no.  

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I'd say that Miles is closer to the crucial difference between left and
right.  The right uses its power to shift the wealth, which workers
create as a class, to the ownership and/or control of the employing
class.  The left struggles to shift that balance of power and wealth
back to the working class--the class of producers.

Regards,
Mike B)  

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