On Apr 29, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Angelus Novus wrote:
> This is essentially the problem with people like Naomi
> Klein: even when they bother to address capitalism as
> a specific social form, it is always conceived as a
> conspiracy of a devious ruling class, rather than an
> objective social structure with its own peculiar logic
> that we all reproduce daily.
Related to my point about how blaming "extraeconomic coercion," as Patrick put it, ducks the hard question of how capitalism evokes popular consent - and why people should take a leap into the unknown to challenge it.
Doug