[lbo-talk] Is Wall St. full of criminals?

[Carrol Cox]

I agree with all of this except for the adveerb in the quotation from 
Parenti. That _seems_ to be overlookign contingency, including false 
judgments by the "makers" of history. But perhaps I misunderstand what 
is meant by "unfolds functionally."

This is the kind of question on which Marx's  _Wages, Price and Profit_ 
is useful.

Carrol

On 5/17/2011 7:16 AM, lbo83235 wrote:
> On May 17, 2011, at 1:18 PM, brad wrote:
>
>    
>> The question is often asked, why isn't anyone from Wall Street in
>> jail.  However, does this question itself shift our attention from the
>> structural causes of the crisis on to individual agents?  Does it take
>> market rationality for granted?
>>      
>
> Couldn't we similarly ask whether advocating prosecution of an accused male rapist for rape - say, just for instance, the head of an international financial institution - diverts our attention from the need to overcome patriarchy?
>
> To which I'd want to answer: "Who do you mean 'we,' white man?"
>
> Seriously, isn't it a false (and disempowering) binary?
>
> "History unfolds functionally within a structural context." - Michael Parenti
>
>
> ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>