[lbo-talk] RIP Chalmers Johnson

[Miles Jackson]

On 11/23/2010 04:12 PM, Eubulides wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Carrol Cox<cbcox at ilstu.edu>  wrote:
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>> And that brings us, or at leas me, back to where we started: Capitalism, a
>> historical aberration, opened up  immense possibilities but only through the
>> destruction of capitalism can those  speculative possibilities become a
>> material possibility (the future is never certain), and the widespread
>> belief in the givenness of Progress endlessly hampers that struggle.
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> Remind us again; what's the non-aberrate baseline historical epoch
> which facilitates your judgement that capitalism is an aberration?
>
> Ian
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Umm--hundreds of thousand of years of human prehistory?

Miles