[lbo-talk] Why Capitalism Cannot be Tamed

[Joshua Morey]

Perhaps I misundertand you, but "Capitalist social relations" means more (to
those who understand such relations to exist, anyway) than a group of rich
people developing a shitty, malevolent sub-culture together. I cannot find
meaninglessness in the fact that I do not own means of production and am
subject to competitive labor markets, that nearly everything I produce is
expropriated by those who own the things I use when I work, that it is real
people - not things - between whom such relationships occur; indeed, I see
these facts as *very* meaningful, constitutive parts of my life.

Perhaps I oversimplify commodity fetishism...but I think to deny the
influence of these relationships on our lives is to indulge in a fantasy of
mastery over nature and history.
On Oct 30, 2010 8:01 PM, "Wojtek S" <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: