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

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Mon Dec 15 08:39:43 PST 2008


On Dec 15, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:


>
> On Dec 15, 2008, at 6:35 AM, Michael Smith wrote:
>
>> He certainly hated capitalism. But his justification
>> for expropriating the expropriators isn't founded
>> on the immorality of the latter, is it? That would
>> presuppose some moral framework (founded on what?)
>> existing over and above or outside of the historical
>> dialectic.
>
> So what's behind an outburst like: "If money, According to Augier,
> 'comes into the world with a congenital blood-stain on one cheek,'
> capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with
> blood and dirt"? Detached scientific observation?
>
Style, man. Style.

Shane Mage


> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos



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