[lbo-talk] profits

[Eric Beck]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.
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> Could you imagine a bourgeois economist saying something like this today?

They wouldn't say it because it wouldn't true or relevant: there are
no real attempts to deceive anymore; it's all out in the open.