Re: Doug Henwood/Mark Jones exchange (from LBO-Talk)

["Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky" <gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

En relación a Doug Henwood/Mark Jones exchange (from LBO-Talk),
el 29 Apr 00, a las 18:19, Louis Proyect (citando a Mark) dijo:

> The accumulaion process on a world scale has not just become
> more lopsided, it's become extravagantly polarised by ANY historical
> standards of comparison except perhaps for the excesses of the
> pyramid-builders of ancient Egypt.

The excesses of the pyramid-builders of ancient Egypt had a very
rational justification. They believed that if the God-King was
provided an adequate burial (some say an adequate launching pad),
then Summer would follow Spring and the Nilus would flood the valley
every year. We must admit that, though now we can contest the
causality, the facts that were sought for arrived every year with
precission.

But there is no rational justification of the same kind for today's
capitalism excesses. Though the "society" as an abstraction becomes
richer year after year (and this is the purported goal of current
policies), human beings as such are, as an average, poorer by the
days. So that, as you see, even Kufu was more reasonable than the
IMF.





Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxx