[lbo-talk] Bush as Diversion

[joanna]

I didn't think Doug was being coy. The gordian knot of the class 
discussion is precisely the distinction between Capital as an economic 
system vs "capital" in its political incarnation....as "the ruling 
class." To strategize, to understand how this culture furthers the aims 
of capital, you have to distinguish and understand the interconnection 
of these two forms.

Joanna

Doug Henwood wrote:


> Carrol Cox wrote:
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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."
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> 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
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