[lbo-talk] Fidel on Libya

Eric Beck ersatzdog at gmail.com
Thu Feb 24 11:33:24 PST 2011


On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:21 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Somebody Somebody" <philos_case at yahoo.com>
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> "Personally I think redistribution is great, and that the welfare state is the greatest and most enduring achievement of the left. Moreover, there are parts of the world that would profit from a purely redistributional revolution, South Africa being a glaring example. But, in the long run the progress of human civilization and the growth of living standards does rest upon the continual improvement in the productive potential, as you point out. After everything's said and done, technological development does far more for social justice than workers councils and vanguard parties."
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> I disagree. If all we get to be is apes on airplanes, I'm not interested.

Yeah, you'd think the death of the Soviet Union would have put an end to this productivist nonsense. I guess not.

Not that production isn't important. It is extremely. But it's not about making more shit, in hopes that the tide raises more boats. I think we know how that ended also.



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