[lbo-talk] The liquidation of society

[Wojtek S]

[WS:]  Nice piece indeed.  What I particularly like about it is the argument
that it is not about economics (which is pseudo-science anyway) but about
value systems and morality.  We collectively produce enough to provide
decent standards of living to practically everyone on the planet - but that
runs against the elite value system, which is built on inequality and
autocratic control.  It is one thing to engage in a cut-throat competition
when there is not enough for everybody - it may be brutal  and inhumane but
it is about survival after all.  But engaging in a cut-throat competition
amidst of plenty is simply criminal - it is a crime against humanity just
like sending people off to death camps to achieve a mad vision of racial
superiority.  These two may differ in methods they employ but not in the
underlying value systems.

Wojtek

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 5:54 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


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> Nice article on Nake Capitalism....
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> http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/02/matt-stoller-the-liquidation-of-society-versus-the-global-labor-revival.html
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> Joanna
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