----- Original Message ----- From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Carl writes: > Capitalism's will to mediocrity may not be all there is to the system, but it is one of its worst aspects. Capitalism sucks the creativity out of everything it touches. It's unbeatable in its drive to routinize and stultify.< I don't know about "unbeatable." It's true that capitalism drives to control all skill, to destroy worker-controlled skills, i.e., to deskill labor (following Marx & Braverman). But workers develop new skills. So the class struggle isn't totally over. Also, there are particularly capitalist kinds of creativity, like Trump or Enron or Soros or Ponzi. These aren't abolished. JD ----- If capitalism were out to suck the creativity and intelligence out of human beings, why do the various sciences still exist and contribute more to human well being than they did one hundred years ago? How do you deskill a scientist? The world needs more Einstein's and capitalism can't control that [leaving aside the problems of the grammar of that sentence].
