[lbo-talk] The Horrible Swiss

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Nov 29 07:56:17 PST 2010


SA: This thread started with the Swiss referendum on expelling non-citizens convicted of crimes, right?

I hate to be a spoil-sport, but where is the evidence that breaking the hegemony of capital results in non-citizens being treated better? North Korea?

This is the sort of bizarre question which makes me think that SA at heart is a deeply committed fan of rational choice individualism, and even leads him to fantasize a nation making such an abstract choice as though that nation were a single isolated individual.

There is no evidence whatever for _any_ prediction of what a nation would do coming out of a long, complex, probably bloody process by which a constituent assembly would come into existence.

Such a transformation would _also_ bring about an utterly unpredictable transformation of the residents of scuh a nation.

SA believes in making rational choices of pigs-in-the-poke.

Carrol



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