On 4/18/2013 11:13 AM, Jim Devine wrote: > Robert Kuttner writes: >>thepremise that “surely one has to pay one’s > debts” is so persuasive, Graeber writes, “because it’s not actually an > economic statement: it’s a > > moral statement.” A debt, by definition, is something you owe that > must be repaid.<< > > > The idea is that we should live up our promises. But pension plans, like > debts, are promises, but corporations have repeatedly broken them, often > using the law. > --
=============== Morality schmorality; monetary debts and the dynamics they weave 'under' capitalism are political phenomena. Is anyone really ready to concede what to do about the monetary mayhem of our times to moral philosophers? Mirror, mirror on the wall -- who is the most moral of them all? It is interesting to read an anarchist practicing one of the more problematic aspects of 'the liberal art of separation.' E _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
