[lbo-talk] Big rise in cannabis factories

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Mar 10 14:03:49 PDT 2009


On Mar 10, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:


> Yes. But WS is wrong when he says, "make perfect sense from a
> capitalist
> point of view, it would increase both profits." Profits motivate each
> specific enterprise. They do NOT motivate the "capitalist point of
> view," which is focused on maintaining the framework within which
> profit-making proceeds. Hence the importance of control, the
> irrelevance
> of the profits that particular capitalists would make were drugs
> legalized.

Some questions for your answers, which I'm sure you'll handle gracefully: how and where does this "capitalist point of view" get formed, and how is it turned into state policy?

Doug



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