Well, I would note the work of Norman O. Brown and 
some other Freudian Marxist types back in the 1960s who 
argued that capitalism is an anal complex.  Capital 
equals feces being saved to give to one's parents, etc.
Barkley Rosser
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998 12:01:11 -0400 Doug Henwood 
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> Thomas Kruse wrote:
> 
> >Gunther Grass had a great aside in the _The Flounder_ about how we pay an
> >awful lot of attention to what goes into the body (food) and how (social
> >rituals, meals, etc.), but preciousl little to what exits, and how.  No one,
> >in recent emeory at least, has a shitting party.
> 
> There's that Bunuel movie, where the people sit around on toilets and talk,
> and go into a secret chamber to shit.
> 
> Joel Kovel once recommended an obscure book called "End Product" that
> psychoanalyzes the anus and its extrusions in all their splendor. Never
> read it myself.
> 
> Doug
> 
> 

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