[lbo-talk] Re: WMT goes orgo

[B.]

"In addition to this there is the horrible--the really
disquieting--prevalence of cranks wherever Socialists
are gathered together. One sometimes gets the
impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and
'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force
every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer,
sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and
feminist in England."

- George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

["Feminists," a bad thing? Otherwise, a-yup! -B.]

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:

"I agree.  I thing much of the demand for the organic
food is not really about food, but about hippie 'back
to earth' nostalgia glorifying manual labor and simple
farm life.  The same nostalgia that brought us the
Cultural Revolution and the Killing Fields.  Since Wal
Mart is the anti-thesis of this quaint simplicity,
this enrages the hippies."