[lbo-talk] How we got from there to here

[Carrol Cox]

This is interesting and it brings to mind one small item (though I can't
cite a source): Joseph Kennedy said somewhere that if he would be willing to
give up half his money if he were left to enjoy the other half in peace.
That's only one remark from one person of course. And it's ambiguous: did he
fear disturbances, riots, etc, or the actual confiscation of his property. 

Of course, even if sometimes some capitalists and capitalist politicians do
fear insurrection,the other half of my argument would hold in that large
numbers of capitalists all the time are concerned (or in a frenzy) over
_any_ imposition on their absolute fredom to do as the damn please. _That_
is richly documented in Morgan's book. The  unending campaign against
regulation of any sort is one of the hallmarks of neoliberalism.
"Business-friendly climate" must reoccur constantly and was certainly one of
the ways capitalists reacted reacted to the 

On 7/14/2011 9:11 AM, Chris Sturr wrote: Carrol's remarks about whether
capitalists ever fear threats to capitalism

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