----- Original Message ---- From: Joanna <123hop at comcast.net> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Fri, February 12, 2010 6:50:44 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] DC blizzard dooms cap and trade
shag writes
"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."
There's a fantastic bit about this in Dickens' /Great Expectations/, wherein a legal clerk literally goes home to his "castle," divided from the street by an actual moat. The book itself is a wonderful anatomy of capitalism.
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