[lbo-talk] Jacobin debate up

dndlllio at aol.com dndlllio at aol.com
Thu Oct 20 17:53:57 PDT 2011


The strategic goal is to live well. Working is a tactic!

On 10/20/11 8:35 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> 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
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