>Someone was making a lot of remarks about finance capital that sounds like >excuses for their behaviour. I wanted to make sure that I understood the >person before I criticized. This is the person who said that they were not a >Marxist anymore but said that they liked Hobbes. OK. This was me who said unpopular things, as usual. Tell us if you can't know who post what if there's no signature. You might influence me and a few others to sign more regularly. In fact, this is not exactly what I meant. I don't think I ever was a genuine marxist. I only considered myself to be one when I was younger. And I didn't say I liked Hobbes, whom I never read except maybe in quotations, but Hobson, whom I only read a little. He wrote a famous book at the very beginning of the century called Imperalism, a study (if I remember well). He was probably inspired by marxists but he looks more like a progressive liberal. He is said to have inspired Lenin. As to finance capital, I don't think I was excusing "them". I'm not too fond of morals and stuff anyway. I am very critical of the deeds of finance capital, at least compared to average people (as opposed to hardcore radicals and leninists and stuff). What I tried to do was to deny that "finance capital" was a uselful concept and to put finance back in context. I indeed don't believe that finance is an independent entity, nor that it rules the world. Those are fantasies of the facistic conspiracy-theorists (I agree with the "de fabel van de illegal" group on this one). In other words, financial stuff is generally done between consenting adults (yes, I know there are exceptions). But yes, finance is a good and heavily symbolic target for attacks on the capitalist system (or for reforms). Key battles have been fought over financial matters. Stopping there won't lead us very far however. I'm used to annoy and puzzle left-leaning individuals of all kinds when I talk about economics. No news. To show you how deeply lost I am, imagine that I read Henwood's Wall Street from the first page to the last. Julien _______________________________________________ Crashlist resources: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/crashlist
