[PEN-L:27400] Re: Re: Capitalist thievery inhibits capitalist recovery

[joanna bujes <joanna.bujes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:35 AM 06/29/2002 +0100, Chris wrote:
> Capital is not theft in marxist terms.

But, doesn't it start out with "primitive capitalist accumulation" -- that
is, theft? And, when we look at more recent capitalist formations: eastern
europe, FSU, as well as the global privatization of social "capital"., does
it not also look like theft?

The problem with the accounting scandals and the ripoffs of the last twenty
years, the obvious theft, is that it screws with the capitalists and it
screws with the "rationality" of the system, which makes it much more
difficult to carry on with normal theft and the ongoing propaganda.

So, I don't think that the left has much to gain arguing for the policing
of the super criminals of late. The capitalists will do that themselves:
they need some modicum of internal policing and they know it.

The left has still to do what it has always had to do -- persuade the
working class that its interest differ from that of the capitalists....for
all the obvious reasons.

Joanna