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>Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> Carrol Cox wrote:
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>> >But capital, not a particular administration, is our enemy.
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>> What's capital? How do we find it/them?
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>Ever hear of Metonymy?
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>Yoshie put it nicely: "Some leftists are oddly literal-minded."
If some people had used "capital" that way, I'd have read it as metonymy. I use it myself rather frequently. But you're constantly so vague on actual persons, institutions, and mechanisms of engagement that I took it as an grand abstraction, with no personification in the earthly realm. So I was wondering if you could put some flesh on this formulation.
"Some leftists..."? I thought you hated that sort of generalization.
Doug