Re: expand/steady-state mkt. economy

1999-02-16 Thread Steve Kurtz
Hi Eva, You and I agree on one subject ( maybe a few others)! We're both atheists. Steve

Re: expand/steady-state mkt. economy

1999-02-16 Thread Ray E. Harrell
Thanks for the reply Eva Durant wrote: Religious people believe in a god, whether it is a literal one with beard or an abstract one that supposed to be symbolising some sort of human feeling/thinking/valuing. There is nothing abstract about Ultimate Concern withthat which is Ultimate in

Re: expand/steady-state mkt. economy

1999-02-15 Thread Brian McAndrews
Great to see you pulled back into the fray, Steve. I second your suggestion re reading Lewontin's 'Biology as Ideology'. It is important to mention that he is a very prominent biologist, not a mystic/ magic hocus/pocus kind of guy like Newton.(and he doesn't babble). Hocus/pocus has interesting

Re: expand/steady-state mkt. economy

1999-02-15 Thread Durant
I think I agree with the gist of what you are saying, except that Marx's main point was not that capitalism is morally wrong, but it is an economical mechanism with a built-in contradiction, that makes it come to a periodic and then a fatal halt. Same with keynesism - built on capitalist

Re: expand/steady-state mkt. economy

1999-02-15 Thread Stephen Straker
Durant wrote: I think I agree with the gist of what you are saying, except that Marx's main point was not that capitalism is morally wrong, but it is an economical mechanism with a built-in contradiction, that makes it come to a periodic and then a fatal halt. Same with keynesism - ...