[lbo-talk] Caudwell on on language's inability to reflect the changing nature of reality

[Carrol Cox]

There is a distinction, sometimes relevant, sometimes irrelevant, between
"wanting money" and "wanting the things money can buy." And there is another
distinction, which (I think) becomes crucial under capitalism, between
individual desire for more money & enterprise need to accumulate in order
not to shrink.

And a further footnote: nothing in this thread can say anything useful about
individuals as individuals. There personal history and contingency rule, and
psychological propositions are too abstract to grasp Mary Q or John H.

Carrol

P.S. Caudwell was a fascinating writer, particularly in Studies in a Dying
Culture, but he was a Marxist only for a couple years and his theoretical
guide was Joseph Stalin. For me, Stalin is not a bogey man, but still, as a
theorist he didn't have a lot to say.