[lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why

[Miles Jackson]

Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Sorry to wax Foucauldian, but this word "emancipatory" is not without 
> problems. It assumes that there's some inner essence yearning to 
> breathe free - and that could breathe free, were it not for all those 
> external constraints. Once removed, it would bound about like a 
> newborn lamb. But, really, what does this emancipation look like? And 
> who is this little shriveled repressed person inside us, anyway? Would 
> I recognize mine if we were introduced?
>
> Doug 

Doug, you're framing this all wrong.  We have a free market, so you're 
already free!  Emanicipation is the freedom to--buy stuff. 

Miles