Anyway, I think turning this into a free will issue (which Miles seems to have been doing) is missing the point. Free will on the part of the individual is neither unique to capitalist ideology, nor inherent in it. It predates capitalism by quite some time, being central to Catholic doctrine and the Middle Ages as a whole. Nor does capitalism have any problem coexisting with the notion of predestination, i.e., fate.
--- On Wed, 8/5/09, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> speaks to the depth of our post-Protestant,
> deeply-Utilitarian and utterly pre-sociological training in
> transhistorical
> heroic individualism. It is the concept of
> individualism, not of the
> individual, choice or responsibility, that is new to the
> 18th and 19th C.