Clark whines: > Perelman, like Marx, suffers from a wildly romantic vision of a > pre-industrial England of laughter and leisure that accords little > with reality. Marx had the excuse that he was writing at a time when > little was known about that past. What utter, ignorant crap! (tell us what ya really think, Tom.) Locking up the the food is a strategy for oppression so old that it is lost in prehistory (for example see: Jane Jacobs, The Economy of Cities, 1968.) Marx understood this very well. By the time of the "Classicals" this was so thoroughly folded in to the idea of "the way things are supposed to be" that Mother Culture scarcely needed to whisper anything in the ears of those who inflicted the Game Laws upon the undefended. When the Classical economists came along, they didn't need to have a meeting or a conference -- even in the dimly lit smoke-filled rooms of capitalist conspiracy -- to promulgate excuses and mathmatical models to justify this atrocity. They nearly instinctively "understood" it, subliminally and subconsciously. Hardly any of them could think outside the box. Malthus, Ricardo and hardly any others glimpsed the non sequiters; but only Malthus seemed to understand that control of the food by those within the system was temporary. He thought God would be the ultimate arbiter. [sigh] But hey, all of us except Clark know this. Who gave him tenure at Davis (the home of veterinary-researched economics [!] ), Archer Daniels Midland, or Phillip Morris? Sheesh Tom "I'm gonna say this just one time, Time is running out on you. You'd best remember me, my friend. I am the Cold Hard Truth." -- George Jones _______________________________________________ CrashList website: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base
