On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Julio Huato <[email protected]> wrote: > Carrol wrote: > >> The assumption that capitalism is bad because capitalists >> are bad is crippling to resistance. > > Enlightened resistance would be better, of course. Ice cream would > also help.
each of us should be given a pony. But we have to realize that demonizing the rich as individuals can contribute to the eventual demonization of the capitalist class as a whole or even of the capitalist system. Without some sort of human face, the words "capitalist class" remains an abstraction. People can get beyond demonizing individual capitalists. Potentially, it's not "crippling." Instead, it can be more like "infancy" or "childhood." One way to help people make the transition -- to "grow up," continuing to use the patronizing metaphor -- is to avoid rigid formulas, _demanding_ that people "grow up" right away and that leftists stop not following one's correct line, like a martinet. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
