I also vote in favour. I think "hey, hey, ho ho, capitalism's gotta go"
would be an advance over "hey, hey, ho, ho, LBJ's gotta go", not that I had
any problem at all with the latter chant in the 60's. The bigger issue is
that there are very few chanting anything on the streets these days, except
the poor deluded bozos on the right, but that's another discussion.
It's true, as Louis has noted, that it depends on what content one puts in
"capitalism" which dictates the nature of the changes being sought. But
naming the system provides an opening for debating what an "anticapitalist"
program would entail. I think I'm recalling correctly the frustration
recorded within the left back in the 60's when one SDS speaker- Oglesby?
Sale? Hayden? - did a masterful job of describing the system, but without
once identifying it as capitalist. "Name it! Name it! Dammit, why doesn't he
name it"?, was the complaint.
Moore, to his credit, has done so, whatever other his perceived
shortcomings, and to a wider audience.
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Capitalism: a Love Story
In a message dated 9/28/2009 1:36:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Right. I'd also go after "freedom." We need to replace capitalism
with a free and democratic economy, and then describe a communist
society.
Comment
Agreed.
WL.
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