[lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration

[Carl Remick]

>From: Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu>
>
> > On Apr 18, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Carl Remick wrote:
> >
> > > There is no activity more natural or more central to the
> > mechanism of
> > > capitalism than setting desperate marginalized groups against each
> > > another.
>
>So there would be no social conflicts without capitalism?

No.  I just think there would be more *interesting* social conflicts without 
capitalism.


>Capitalism bashing belongs to the same category.  It does not really try to
>grasp the complexity of modern social organization...

Speaking purely anecdotally, I have witnessed at length the complexity of 
the modern social organization, capitalist variety, from the inside, and 
have concluded this system richly deserves to be bashed.  "Grasping the 
complexity" of the capitalist organization is best done when you're actually 
in the grasp of the capitalist organization.

Carl