He says that the inhabitants of Utopia are contemptuous of precious metals and jewels, which are used for children's toys.
The thought there is that the more valuable human relations become, the less valuable the petrified signifiers of those relations become.
joanna
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 7:26:57 AM Subject: [lbo-talk] Lenin on the toilet
Did Lenin actually say this?
"When we are victorious on a world-wide scale, we will make public toilets out of gold on the streets of the world's largest cities." ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk