Joanna
mike larkin wrote:
>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n07/zize01_.html
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>"...There is a chocolate-flavoured laxative available
>on the shelves of US stores which is publicised with
>the paradoxical injunction: Do you have constipation?
>Eat more of this chocolate! i.e. eat more of
>something that itself causes constipation. The
>structure of the chocolate laxative can be discerned
>throughout todays ideological landscape; it is what
>makes a figure like Soros so objectionable. He stands
>for ruthless financial exploitation combined with its
>counter-agent, humanitarian worry about the
>catastrophic social consequences of the unbridled
>market economy.
>
>Soross daily routine is a lie embodied: half of his
>working time is devoted to financial speculation, the
>other half to humanitarian activities (financing
>cultural and democratic activities in post-Communist
>countries, writing essays and books) which work
>against the effects of his own speculations.
>
>The two faces of Bill Gates are exactly like the two
>faces of Soros: on the one hand, a cruel businessman,
>destroying or buying out competitors, aiming at a
>virtual monopoly; on the other, the great
>philanthropist who makes a point of saying: What does
>it serve to have computers if people do not have
>enough to eat?..."
>
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