[lbo-talk] Agency and Capitalism

[Carrol Cox]

There is a necessary gap between theory and practice. We are trying here to
theorize the capitalist system. NO particular political program follows from
this. And in particular, no basis for judgment of individual workers follows
from it. (That leads back to those labeled  lifestyle anarchists.

But all this also gestures towards what might be labeled the
Luxemburg-Benjamin-Tamas-Lowy perspective: We really might not be able to
pull it off. Barbarism may be the name of where we are and where we will be.

Carrol

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Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 10:17 AM
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Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Agency and Capitalism

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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