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[valis <valis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sid:
> >Doug, please address this question yourself. If such a separation is not
> >possible, your position becomes one of defending capitalism itself, no?

Doug:
> Following in this morning's PEN-L tradition of quoting poets from memory,
> I'll quote Wallace Stevens' "It must be possible. It must!" I keep hoping
> that a more humane social system could appropriate the technical and
> organizational knowledge produced by capitalism and re-deploy it for
> purposes other than making money and steepening hierarchies. Maybe this is
> too optimistic.

Well, we could hit the books to determine whether this has ever happened
anywhere, for any appreciable length of time, and, if so, how it ended.
That would be better than purely abstract debate in this case, yes?

                                                                 valis

       Nur das Beispiel fu"hrt zum Licht/
       Vieles Reden tut es nicht

                         (-- One of those grim 19th century deutschers)