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> On Dec 14, 2008, at 9:20 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
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> > How about: We want it, and we *will* have it?
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> You mean Marx wrote all that stuff, when he could have just said, "Me.
> Want. Now!"? Why bother with decoding the phenomenal forms of profit,
> interest, and rent originating in uncompensated labor if you could
> just reduce it to the demands of a 3-year-old?
He was a curious guy who liked to figure things out, perhaps. Like many of us, though smarter than most. But he didn't believe -- did he? -- that argument -- still less, moral argument -- was going to dethrone the bourgeoisie and bring about -- what?
> And I'm not sure all that many people want to be "free" - of what? not
> sure (is there some inner essence distorted by nonfreedom?)
Yeah, a problematic concept, if you hypostatize it (Latine: reify). Being dis-enslaved is perhaps a bit more concrete.
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