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<body>yes, the mystical realms of conspiracy theory in which prosecutors toil in their efforts to bring cases against capitalist criminals for their conspiracies to fleece the people - e.g. Enron - which was doubtless a monumental conspiracy that was prosecutued based on a theory of how it was carried out. that is, marxist analysis deals with abstraction - 'conspiracy theory' deals with the reality of capitalism.<br><br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">> Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 22:14:48 -0700<br>> From: fuerdenkommunismus@yahoo.com<br>> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] 9/11 plot denialists are nuttier<br>> To: lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org<br>> <br>> <br>> --- Jerry Monaco <monacojerry@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> <br>> > In the place of ruling<br>> > classes and the capitalist system they substitute<br>> > the grand conspiracy of<br>> > history. And this happens over and over again.<br>> <br>> Maybe the fact that the grand conspiracy of history<br>> can be used to substitute for the place of ruling<br>> classes should suggest to us that attributing things<br>> to the ruling classes is nothing but a watered-down,<br>> Marxist version of conspiracy theory.<br>> <br>> Not that there isn't a ruling class (and an owning<br>> class), it is just that these classes are immanent<br>> categories of a society of generalized commodity<br>> production. We ascribe these classes too much agency<br>> when we forget that they are just as subsumed to the<br>> imperatives of the value form and the state as much as<br>> the rest of us are.<br>> <br>> The two overriding imperatives of this society,<br>> depending upon where one is positioned in it, are 1)<br>> one's need to sell one's ability to labor in exchange<br>> for a wage and 2) the need to accumulate capital in<br>> order to maintain one's self in the competition<br>> between capitals.<br>> <br>> The state's role is to maintain a stable framework for<br>> those two imperatives.<br>> <br>> Once we depart from that, we enter the mystical realms<br>> of conspiracy theory.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> __________________________________________________<br>> Do You Yahoo!?<br>> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>> http://mail.yahoo.com <br>> ___________________________________<br>> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk<br></body>
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