take hear though. you happen to be considered, far and wide, as THE left royalty in the united states. fuck trying to change hearts and minds and convince anyone; cash in man.
shag
> On Jun 23, 2010, at 2:10 PM, turbulo at aol.com quoted:
>
>> “At the pinnacle is the financial sphere and its major players, but
>> all that is quite abstract. You can’t demonstrate against an
>> abstraction,” explains the sociologist Alain Mergier.
>
> It's complex in the details, but not in the power relations: the
> financial system is about the construction and exercise of ownership
> and control by a possessing class. The left does no one any favors
> when it speaks of finance as detached, otherworldly, epiphenomenal, or
> anything like that.
>
> Excuse my personal pique, but I find it endlessly exasperating that I
> wrote a book about this shit, published 13 years ago by the leading
> left house in the English-speaking world and now available everywhere
> for free download, yet my analysis has had almost no visible effect on
> left discourse.
>
> Doug