[lbo-talk] cleansing

[Philip Pilkington]

> You:
>
>  This notion that you can arbitrarily call every stockbroker an obsessional
>> (i.e. anal figure) is total nonsense
>>
>
> So, like, who did that?
>
> Do you even read your own stuff?
>
>
That was the basic Freudian thesis. It was picked up by most Leftists, since
Reich and the Frankfurt School. They figured that capitalists were the
consequence of the anal figure.

And what I was saying was that you can't tie money, gold or stock to the
"anal" figure. The motivations, as far as I can see, are more varied...