On Apr 28, 2012, at 8:44 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> I still believe that change is on the whole evil -- unless absolutely
> necessary. It is necessary for human survival to destroy capitalism. And
> this is relevant to the debate over austerity. Austerity is the NORMAL
> condition of capitalism, violated for a short time after WW2. Normal
> processes of change ("Progress") after 1970 returned capitalism to its
> normal state. How did that quote from Benjamin go, re stopping the train
> we're on?
I keep getting it mixed up with William F Buckley's mission statement for National Review: "It stands athwart history, yelling Stop."
Doug