On Oct 20, 2011, at 7:11 PM, Mike Beggs wrote:
> 'Capitalism works because you do.' The problem here is a mistaken
> treatment of our work as the independent variable. 'We work',
> therefore capitalism works. But why do we work? Because we have coded
> positive feelings in our head about capitalism and want to make it
> work? So if only we could have some transformative experience that
> changes our feelings on the matter we would realise how foolish were
> we to work, and we would decide to stop reproducing capitalism?
> Hardly. We work because we need to in order to get the means to live,
> regardless of our feelings on the matter. It's a strategic response,
> given our place in society. Strategies aimed at changing the
> conditions in which we make that everyday strategic decision are
> inevitably going to involve working at a political level, in the
> boring state-oriented sense.
You are my hero.
Doug