[lbo-talk] IT innovation and "the Markets"

[Fernando Cassia]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> One of the horrors of capitalism, both in itself and as source of other
> evils, is the rapid pace of innocation. This is one of the theoretical
> weaknesses of "progressive" as opposed to serious socialist, a really
> naive and even destructive belief that change is inherently a virtue,
> while it is more often at best harmless and all too often destructive.
> Humanity needs a rest of constant change if it is to survive.
>
> We _have_ to destroy capitalism root and branch for the same reason,
> survival. Commodity production must cease. But on the whole, necessity
> is the only rational reason for change. Merely desirable change which is
> not necessary should come slowly.
>
> Carrol

The party just called, you need to give up your laptop. It will be
replaced with an IBM PC loaded with FreeDOS and dual 5 1/4" floppy
disk drives.

JOKE JOKE -sorry couldn't resist-
FC