[lbo-talk] Privelege (Was Re: Maoist cleanup drive hits Nepal)

Ted Winslow egwinslow at rogers.com
Mon Jan 8 16:39:34 PST 2007


Michael Pugliese asked:


> Sadists are petty-bourgeois?
> Heh, class analysis.

"dangerous human proclivities can be canalised into comparatively harmless channels by the existence of opportunities for money-making and private wealth, which, if they cannot be satisfied in this way, may find their outlet in cruelty, the reckless pursuit of personal power and authority, and other forms of self-aggrandisement. It is better that a man should tyrannise over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens; and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative." (Keynes, General Theory, p. 374) <http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/keynes/general- theory/ch24.htm>

Ted



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