[lbo-talk] Re: Aundhati Roy on the brewing instability in India

[Doug Henwood]

On May 31, 2006, at 10:52 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:

> Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>> On May 31, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>>
>>> In the particular category you describe (that
>>> of black males who do well), the ones who do well are not doing well
>>> BECAUSE other black males are doing poorly!
>>
>> How's that? Is there some racial zero-sum balancing mechanism?
>>
>
> Do you shut off your brain when you read my posts, or are you  
> dyslexic?
>
> One worker's misery is not _because_ of another workers's comfort.
>
> A capitalist's well-doing is _because_ of the ill-doing of millions.

You don't have to be a capitalist to "do well" in a rich country like  
the U.S. Or do you have some fanciful ultraleftist idea of the income  
distribution? Are Dwayne and his friends major exploiters?

And what value are the very poor creating that some capitalist is  
appropriating?

Doug