Hallyx, you prat.
>Yup, typical Marxist...
I doubt such a creature exists, but am fairly sure Carrol is no such thing.
>knows how to fill a hall but has nothing to say.
You got this the wrong way 'round, too. But your mundane prejudices put you
beyond sensible argument, lists of references, and a plethora of human
tragedies by way of empirical evidence. More patient men than I might
sweetly explain to you that we are not responding rationally to the material
crises we see building around us, that most of us would feel something is
wrong, and that what's wrong is the dumb directionless drive to accumulate
that fundamentally characterises capitalism and now necessarily trumps all
other considerations. That we are being driven, lemming-like, to our doom
by a relation that operates behind our backs. Well, behind your back,
anyway.
Says one particularly clever chap: "The economic anarchy of capitalist
society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.
We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are
unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective
labor�not by force, but on
the whole in faithful compliance with legally established rules."
He also says, "I have now reached the point where I may indicate briefly
what to me constitutes the essence of the crisis of our time. It concerns
the
relationship of the individual to society. The individual has become more
conscious than ever of his dependence upon society. But he does not
experience this dependence as a positive asset, as an organic tie, as a
protective force, but rather as a threat to his natural rights, or even to
his economic existence. Moreover, his position in society is such that the
egotistical drives of his make-up are constantly being accentuated, while
his social drives, which are by nature weaker, progressively deteriorate.
All human beings, whatever their position in society, are suffering from
this process of deterioration."
>in your case, says it with arrogant contumely and vitriol.
And in yours, dear smug Hallyx?
>"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity;
>and I'm not even sure about the universe." ---Albert Einstein
Why don't you stop looking for little quotes to buttress your idle
bigotries, Hallyx, and actually read what Einstein had to say about
politics, science and ethics? Find out about his youth in the Zurich of
Trotsky,
Luxemburg and Kollontai. And about his friendship with Marxist
revolutionary Friedrich Adler.
Einstein was a socialist, too, Hallyx, and said so. In case you didn't
notice, he was that clever chap I so liberally quoted above
( http://www.monthlyreview.org/598einst.htm ).
Cheers,
Rob.
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