[lbo-talk] Agency and Capitalism

Bill O'Connor billyoc at gmail.com
Fri Dec 31 08:17:10 PST 2010


Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes:


> On Dec 31, 2010, at 12:38 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> This reminds me of a brilliant sticker by the group Gender Killer I
>> once saw on a lamppost: "Capitalism is Not a Conspiracy of the Few.
>> It Works Because You Work."
>>
>> Perhaps I'm being thick, but couldn't the above statement be true of
>> any economic system?
>
> Not to be actionist or anything, but does this mean that working is
> somehow counterrevolutionary?

Isn't that an old anarchist saw, "If you're not revolting against work, you're working against revolt"?



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