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

[Matthias Wasser]

More to the point, why work for freedom for others? In some cases you
can say: these are all-encompassing systems of social relations, so
it's impossible e.g. for me to be free of capital without all being
free of capital. And in some cases you can say that even the
less-oppressed group has objective interests in change: as a man, I
can see how I have selfish interests in the victory of feminism...

But then it seems to me that I'm an objective beneficiary of racism
and imperialism; and in any event, isn't it easier to become a
capitalist than overthrow capital? I mean, the very reason these
systems reproduce themselves is that it's in each person's individual
interest to do what the system demands of her - that's just what it
_means_ for the system to demand something. So why fight it, if not
from an irrational, emotional desire that people be free - i.e., from
morality?