[lbo-talk] Why are the US-ers such assholes?

[B.]

I actually emailed the Guardian's Emma Brockes
regarding her October 31 interview with Chomsky, where
she pulls out the tired old gag of accosting him
because he's a"Beneficiary" of the system he hates. (I
know some others that did the same.) There's a certain
line of rightist criticism that basically says to be
anti-capitalist you should live like a Jainist monk.

Once I went a few months without a car. I got around
on bike. Even then someone told me, "You don't like
capitalism? Well, capitalism gave you that bike." I
thought of someone living in a hamlet in feudal times.
"You don't like your cottage? Well, feudalism gave you
that cottage." It did? Awesome -- I really should
support feudalism, then, huh!?

-B.

Michael Pugliese wrote:


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>   Michael Moore has 2,000 shares in Halliburton
according to Schweizer.
>http://www.postchronicle.com/news/entertainment/article_2121115.shtml
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