[lbo-talk] Third Greek coalition bid fails

[Carrol Cox]

I'll overpost to repeat Joanna's point. All the apparent advantages of
capitalism are illusions created by technology, for which capitalism is
given credit. (We can give capitalism the credit for global warming and the
exhaustion of the world's fresh water.)

But a caution: Graeber doesn't recognize the immense difference (not a moral
difference) between pre-capitalist coercion and the alienation from the
means of production under capitalism. He should read another anarchist,
Fredy Perlman, who understands the difference. Commodity fetishism can mean
nothing whatever to Graeber, since it is wholly a product or manifestation
of capitalist relations. He smushes all forms of exploitation together. And
as Angelus points out, this leads to Frank's denial of the existence of
capitalism; actually Jim Blaut's concept of Eurocentrism leads to the same
conclusion: he saw capitalism as "progress," i.e. just another milestone on
the road from barbarism to utopia.

Carrol

Carrol

Carrol

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The middle ages have gotten a bad rap, mostly from the Renaissance (which
was essentially a counter-revolution).

I wish people would stop using it as a synonym for totalitarian evil.

Joanna

-- 
Wojtek

"Modern conservatism is just a neoliberal gloss on medieval domination."
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