----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
Well, some barbarians get to watch the slaughter from the grandstand. And barbarianism does come in more sophisticated forms than Dachau.
Socialism is not a metaphysical Good; barbarianism is not a metaphysical evil. They are both complex ensembles social relations. No contradiction in affirming Luxemberg's empirical description while denying Arendt's personified abstractions.
Carrol
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"We're all barbarians now."
When did the transition from capitalism to barbarism take place? Or is there no such process as capitalism such that western history [at least] should be rewritten as the transition from feudalism to barbarism with all political/technological roads leading anywhere?