[lbo-talk] DC blizzard dooms cap and trade

[shag carpet bomb]

At 09:34 PM 2/10/2010, Carrol Cox wrote:
>The family (though essential to capitalism) can't be turned into a
>commodity, though there are probably ways to try to. There are
>continuous efforts made to commodify education, and with some success,
>but much of it still remains 'outside' capitalism. And the state. Note
>that capitalism has florished under an amazing variety of types of
>state, thoug it requires _a_ state.

the idea that there are three spheres of society -- the economy, the state, 
and civil society/the family -- is an idea engendered by capitalism itself. 
Adam Smith was one of its famous proponents. The family as a sphere that 
can't be commodified, likewise, the ideology central to Victorian ideology 
which pedaled the notion of separate spheres where the family was a haven 
in a heartless world, a bulwark against the forces of the market and the 
state, a haven that must be preserved in order to prevent the excesses of 
the market and state. The latter, a position also promoted by Smith, which 
emerged from ideas circulating among Scottish Englightenment thinkers.

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