Comments

1. T

   Sunday 22 June 2008 at 11:53

   Capitalism kills 20 million people every year. Capitalism is genocide.

   Gonna back that up with anything?

   Seems to me that India needs to enforce their child labour laws, not end capitalism.

2. Will

   Sunday 22 June 2008 at 12:17

   Yes — a better managed genocide — that’ll make everything just hunkydory.

3. Will

   Monday 23 June 2008 at 23:10

   “…it is nevertheless true that one will understand an amount ranging between very little and next to nothing about the social and political world if one does not give central attention to the distribution of economic wealth and power and the class relations which flow from it.”

   …

   “the aspiration for equality and social justice to a powerful analysis and critique of the capitalist order, highlighting at once – through the notions of alienation and commodity fetishism – its opaque and brutal inner logic, the exploitative relations integral to it and the close lines of influence between economic and political power that constrain and impel every state. This is apart from many further incidental riches. And Marx, of course, inaugurates a tradition containing the works of other astute thinkers: original works of political analysis and social theory, of history, biography, aesthetics and more, from Luxemburg’s Mass Strike, Party and Trade Unions to Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization, from Trotsky’s Results and Prospects or his History of the Russian Revolution to Deutscher’s biographical trilogy on Trotsky, from Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks to Althusser’s For Marx, Timpanaro’s On Materialism and Cohen’s Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defence.”

   …

   “…there is Marxism’s enduring commitment to the goal of an egalitarian, non-exploitative society, a commitment I see as being stronger and less qualified than it has been within any competing intellectual and political tradition.”

   http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plcdib/imprints/normangerasinterview.html

4. Will

   Tuesday 24 June 2008 at 0:48

   Liberals and tories — I would like to see them butchered. Put them into camps as they do to others.

5. No Good Boyo

   Wednesday 25 June 2008 at 14:22

   Bernsteinism as satire:

   http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/back-to-the-brothel-for-primark-t%11shirt-kids-200806241042/