[lbo-talk] MH & DG on university

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Feb 27 14:49:36 PST 2012


Shag wrote: OTOH, prisoners running their own prison was a metaphor Marx might have used for capitalism. What was the famous one someone, Jim F?, once quoted here about the difference between slavery and capitalism, where a slavery must be whipped to work, under capitalism, a work does his own self-whipping.

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Read the account again. If you want to compare it to slavery, compare it to a slave insurrection. It is about as far as possible from slaves whipping slaves.

Carrol



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