[lbo-talk] Down with progress(Was Re: Obama picks . . . .)(

[andie nachgeborenen]

Bring back the Black Death! And 50% female childbirth mortality rates! State-enforced patriarchy! Property-based all male suffrage! And 50 year life expectancies! And infant mortality so high we don't even name the kids for five years! Now there's some slogans we can get behind. While we are at it, hereditary monarchy, wars of succession, witchburning, enforced state religion and the occasional religious massacre, expulsion of the Jews, serfdom, and slavery all are great ideas! The death penalty for petty property crimes! the abolition of legal representation in criminal cases! Hanging, drawing, and quartering! Heads on the spikes of traitor's bridge! Down with progress!

--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Obama picks Rahm Emanuel, free trade fanatic &   welfare   "reformer"
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 11:00 AM
> On Nov 6, 2008, at 9:18 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> 
> > Aside from the constant (and for the most part
> destructive)
> > revolutionizing of production endemic to capitalism,
> the growth in
> > science and technology (intertwined with but not
> identical with
> > capitalism) from the 16th century on of course
> contributed to the
> > apparent reality of Progress.
> 
> If it weren't for such "Progress" you'd
> be dead by now, right?
> 
> Doug
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