[lbo-talk] Progress and Cariucature (Was Re: Catholicism. . . )

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Sun Dec 14 18:55:59 PST 2008


On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:35:06 -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


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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?
>
> 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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