[lbo-talk] Marx on historical origin of national debt

Eric Beck ersatzdog at gmail.com
Fri Jul 22 07:52:24 PDT 2011


On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:20 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:


> CB: It has some amazingly fresh and current discussion, like "bankocracy".
>
> "Populism" has a substantial rational kernel from the standpoint of
> socialist consciiousness, despite anti-semitic shell.  We can be
> confident that any "populism" in Marx like the above is the rational
> kernel of it.   Nothing wrong with exposing the parasitic or lazy
> nature of most annuitants.

I don't really like the idea of lazy being used as a pejorative. But more relevantly, there are no lazy annuitants today. Everyone, including especially the bankocracy, works hard for their money. Machinic enslavement, man.



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