[PEN-L:32963] Re: Re: Re: Blowback

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Doug Henwood wrote:
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> If they're so stupid, gang, how come they've managed to run the world
> all these centuries?
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I think it's wisest to assume "they" know what they're doing. It's
unwise to underestimate an enemy.

But success in running the world is in itself no evidence for anything.
As far as I can tell, capitalism runs just as well for capitalism pretty
much regardless of the capacities of the people running things at any
one time. (Or the capacities of those opposing it for that matter.)

If (as I would think) capitalism is an inherently self-destructive AND
self-repairing system, the appearance of stupidity or incompetence would
simply be an epiphemenon of one aspect of capitalism, while the
appearance of competence would simply be an epiphenmenon of another
aspect.

> Doug