[lbo-talk] Food Prices Again

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Feb 17 07:37:59 PST 2011


On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:19 PM, Shane Mage wrote:


> Populist capitalist demagogues (Sarkozy out in front, even of the Coburns and Levins) love to blame "speculators" for the fact that they just can't help transferring speculative *losses* (but never speculative profits) onto workingclass taxpayers via TARP etc.

You're making no sense. Is this some sort of mental block traceable to an orthodox Marxoid belief that finance is just epiphenomenonal froth?

Doug



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