On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > We again come up against the difficulties created by mixing ethics & > politics. "Fairness" has no objective content; it ignores the tautology > that > a capitalist economy is a capitalist economy. >
Yeah, we went through this a little while back. You claim that your politics are free from any value-judgments and is completely objective, a claim that I find incoherent and/or self-contradictory. My politics are most assuredly not free of value-judgments and I make no apologies for that. I'd add that in the real world there are no such things as "capitalist economies". What we have are complex social systems some (admittedly large and important) aspects of which can be usefully understood and analyzed in terms of the abstraction of "capitalist economy". I'd suggest to you that there are large and important parts of society that are *not* usefully described in the language of the "capitalist economy" abstraction. If you do not put down your Marxist hammer every once in a while, you may start seeing nails everywhere. -raghu.
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