[lbo-talk] Inside job

[Carrol Cox]

I hadn't read this when I wrote my post, but I see that Inailed Wojtek's
fundamental ignorance of what capitalism _is_ == and identified the
political futility grounded in that ignorance. It is the same conception of
capitalism, incidentally, that capitalists hold (who do not understand Mdarx
even if they read and use him). They too believe that all depends on the
right people being in charged. (In this sense, they resemble Trotskyists.) 

Incidentally, someone could write a fat book on Pound's _Cantos_ using
Wojtek's phrase as his or her key: " incapacitating a handful of people
forming the vanguard party of finance capital will do." It made a great
epic, but it makes for lousy politics. Whatever Wojtek is, he is _not_ a
deliberate apologist for capitalism, but here he states the central ideology
which contributes to keeping capitalism going. The  academic economists he
sneers at may help the morale of some capitalists, but they have no great
political impact. His delusion does since almost 300 million people believe
it and act on it.

Carrol

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Shane Mage
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 10:03 AM
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Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Inside job

On Dec 27, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Wojtek S wrote:
>  one does not need a revo and "withering of the state" to implement  
> far
> reaching systemic changes -  incapacitating a handful of people  
> forming the
> vanguard party of finance capital will do.

Now who will bell the cat?
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