[lbo-talk] Ralph loves the nice plutocrats

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Sep 23 16:46:32 PDT 2009


"he closer democracy got to Ralph, the less he liked it."

Of course, most people are like that. The one's who are different are the ones who, when it gets closer, dislike it very much but force themselves to swallow it and eventually to like it.

As to Nader. He is a certain kind of materialist; one who sees only concrete results.

Then he is a progressive. A progressive is someone who has resigned him/herself (though they may pretend otherwise, to Capitalism Forever, but keeps hoping that capitalism will gradually improve and be nicer to people.

But capitalism can only improve (and that only temporarily) if nice plutocrats work at making it so.

Progressives who don't believe in nice plutocrats are a chaos.

Carrol



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