[lbo-talk] Dangerous Work Done Dirt Cheap

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jan 9 08:01:32 PST 2006


JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote:


> >If you don't want to take responsiblitity for the business/social framework
>>of modern day America, that's fine, but puuleease don't try to rationalize
>it away
>>with an "economic model in a vacuum".
>
>So where does that guilt about consumption take you, then, politically?

Into hippie moralism, which is where we've seen Leigh lead us before. I was always skeptical of Marx's refusal to argue morally, preferring "science" instead, but watching Leigh in action, I'm seeing the Old Man's point a lot better.

Doug



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