On 23/07/11 05:43, Carrol Cox wrote:
> All things fall and are built again,
> And those who build them again are gay.
>               Yeats
> 
> Come on. Both of you know what capitalism is. Both of you know the 
> history, the defeats, the famines, the deaths from overwork, the 
> hundreds of millions (over time billions) of peaaants ground down, the 
> endless Kill All, Burn All, Loot All campaigns of pacification, the 
> 50-hour or longer work weeks of skilled workers in the factories of the 
> "Golden Age" of capitalism, the broken lives from corporate mergers. The 
> list is endless. And unlike those billions you are among the supremely 
> fortunate who can NAME the source of it all.
> 
> What is different about the present to generate such gloom?

That the leftist elite - and bourgeois academics - find their own
livelihoods threatened?

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