[lbo-talk] quote

Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at gmail.com
Sun May 8 11:18:15 PDT 2005


Michael Dawson...


> Grundrisse is unpublished notebooks, dude. Beyond that, you're
> trying (and failing) to make a mountain out of a molehill. Ordinary
> reading reveals that Marx is saying that capitalism systemically
> enforces social connections that are stronger and better than
> previous intentionally-imposed ones, even though it's a selfish and
> anarchic system in terms of centralized power. You disagree with
> that? Why?
>

I think modern psychological marketing techniques, and media concentration, among other factors unforseen at the time, makes *this* statement false.

"...capitalism systemically enforces social connections that are stronger and better than previous intentionally-imposed ones,"

Leigh



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