Hi Michael, Thanks for having a look, and that's interesting - no I really didn't intend that connection. I lifted the phrase from the article I posted yesterday: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28245.htm
"This attack is being mounted not by nation states as such, but by a cosmopolitan financial class. Finance always has been cosmopolitan more than nationalistic – and always has sought to impose its priorities and lawmaking power over those of parliamentary democracies." I wonder if the author is aware of the point you're raising, because he does use the phrase quite a few times in the article...? all the best, dave On 6 June 2011 19:24, Michael Szpakowski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dave > As you know I love your work and I'm delighted you're drawing again! Just a > point though; I think one has to be very careful with the word > "cosmopolitan", especially in conjunction with "financial class" - > "cosmopolitan" was classic Stalinist anti-semitic code for "Jewish", and the > differentiation of the Capitalist class into "industrial" (read- productive, > patriotic) and "financial" (read - parasitic, international) has also > historically been used to stoke up anti-semitism: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasserism > I'm not denying that there can be important differences at some times between > the immediate interests of bankers and industrialists but this is a nuance > compared to the importance of putting the blame fairly and squarely on the > capitalist class *as a whole*... > warmest wishes > michael > > > --- On Mon, 6/6/11, dave miller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: dave miller <[email protected]> >> Subject: [NetBehaviour] cosmopolitan_financial_class >> To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" >> <[email protected]> >> Date: Monday, June 6, 2011, 5:13 PM >> I've just made a new drawing; it's >> going to be part of something else, >> but I wanted to share it: >> http://davemiller.org/drawings/austerity/cosmopolitan_financial_class.png >> >> This is the first thing I've managed to do for ages! >> >> Hope everyone's well >> >> dave >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ============================ Sign the petition: Close residential streets on Sundays so children can play out (http://uservoice.com/a/7nZ3I) ============================ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
