[lbo-talk] An Orgy of Speculation?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Mar 5 10:30:21 PST 2011


On Mar 5, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Eric Beck wrote:


> Apropos maybe of nothing, I have to worry about (leftist) critics who
> combine the words "orgy" and "speculation" to form a pejorativ

No, that's not nothing. There's a deep moralism underlying a lot of left critiques of "speculation" - as if it were morally superior to exploit labor in production.

Doug



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