> Bingo! And that's why the endless wailing and knashing of teeth about this
> or that particular nasty featue of capitalism pisses me off so. What such
> wailings do is disguise the real uniqueness of capitalism, its inereadical
> destructive force.
Oh please. So you are saying that only the Whole of capitalism is Real and that each of its attributes is nonessential and substitutable? How can the thing called capitalism be anything other than the expression of its elements? Sounds to me like you are abandoning the points of antagonism here and, in your essentialist definition of capitalism, insisting on intellectual purity.