Marv wrote: > Watched it last night. It's an excellent complement to Inside Job. My only > criticism is that it shares the widespread liberal (in some cases, leftist) > misconception that the extremes of wealth and poverty and the arrogant greed > and insensitivity of the rich and powerful are a fairly recent phenomenon > resulting from stepped-up capitalist organization and lobbying and the wave of > financial deregulation at the end of the century.
Right. But there's what I call the "\sum_i x_i = Y rule", which says that one can suffer death by a thousand cuts just as death by a massive stroke. E.g., disproportions in many unimportant branches of the economy can disrupt the whole economy just as much as an imbalance in a key sector. But the rule cuts both ways! Thus, one liberal (e.g. Paul Krugman) can have as large a concrete, favorable effect on the class struggle as the total sum of n Marxists out there (me included), where n can be a very large number. Ideally, we would want to have n radical Marxists each with as much influence as a Paul Krugman, but we don't have them -- yet. So, for the time being, I'll take one Paul Krugman any day over less than n Marxists (again, me included). Many lower-quality radical documentaries would perhaps have a similar effect than a high-quality liberal one, but I haven't seen them -- yet. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
