[lbo-talk] Marx without quotation marks

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Wed Apr 1 10:15:34 PDT 2009


On Tue, March 31, 2009 6:24 pm, Philip Pilkington wrote:


> This has nothing to do with translation issues or anything else. My
> claim is that these institutions which are supposed to generate the
> norms, value judgements etc. are totally fucked and they no longer
> function.

They function perfectly well -- from the standpoint of the ruling class. The US gulag generates hate, pain, misery and defeatism in poor and workingclass communities on a massive scale. The US school system teaches kids to hate intellectuals and thinking. The US mass media propagates the crassest blowhard idiocy and conformity to power. The US health care system kills babies for the sake of insurance company profits.

Capital doesn't want order. Capital wants maximum chaos on the local level, the war of all against all.

-- DRR



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