Janis and I just spent a heart-stopping amount of money on Stickley furniture -- dressers, a bed, night tables, coffee table, various living room tables and a TV table. Gorgeoeous stuff. As I mentioned to Doug, we may end up living in a cardboard box under W. Wacker Dr,, but it will be a beautifully furnished box. So, we not properly proletarian. Read William Morris on Socialism and Art. He thought that the problem with capitalism was that it made everything ((including people) ugly, and that the working class deserved beauty and style.
--- Chuck0 <chuck at mutualaid.org> wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > My god. Gucci's don't go for $3,000 - that's 5-10
> times too high
> >
>
<http://www.gucci.com/us/us-english/us/spring-summer-05/womens-shoes/view_all_pumps.shtml>.
>
> > In any case, I'm aware of how much stuff costs. My
> office is in Soho,
> > and I'm here almost every day, surrounded by
> luxury goods, in boutiques
> > and on people. Yeah, sure, there's conspicuous
> consumption going on, at
> > highly inflated prices. But the stuff is still
> beautiful - why deny
> > that? Why shouldn't socialists and their
> ideological kin want beautiful
> > things for everyone, and not just the rich? Why
> not beautiful
> > buildings, streets, cities? Why always the
> moralizing about pricetags?
>
> Amen. As I've said on several occasions, anarchists
> aren't against
> gourmet (or excellent) food, we're against the
> international system of
> capitalism that limits that food to a few wealthy
> mouths.
>
> Cue side discussion about the ugliness of Z
> Magazine.
>
> Chuck
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