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Subject: Re: Reich and Marx - Tue, 12 Mar 1996 17:20:08 -0500
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 17:20:08 -0500
From: ccaruso@sas.upenn.edu (Christopher G Caruso)
Message-Id: <199603122209.RAA12526@mail2.sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: Reich and Marx
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Alan Pogrebinschi wrote:
>
> Dear OML users,
>
> So much nonsense going on the list, I'm happy someone raised a true
> subject, like the Marx-Reich relationship.
>
> Karl Marx was, with Freud, a determinant influence in Reich's work. But
> modern reichians, neo-reichians and alike, usually utterly ignore the
> theory of marxism.
>
> In my view, one of the sources wich will bring reichian theory back to
> life is the reinterpretation of its economical/political consequences.
> That's part of my work now.
>
> Let's polemize (is it spelled correct? I'm brazilian - sorry):
>
> - Liberalism, as Adam Smith's, trusts totally in the market's natural
> ability to rule itself, for me he was the true founder of
> self-regulation. We cannot trust self-regulation on the individual level
> and distrust it when it concerns society. I don't mean the market
> functions harmoniouslly and fairly now, but humans also are not behaving
> healthy at all and we still believe in their natural self-regulation. As
> an armored human animal, the market is also armored and depends on the
> quality of the people composing it.
>
> I know the above thought leaves many question unanswered. But it was my
> starting point, a few years ago. I'm happy to share it with you now.
This is interesting, but I'm not sure that neo-liberalism is even a
coherent position worth attacking. You will not find a single consistent
neo-liberal in the USA, at least. Neo-liberalism (removing all
constraints from the market to allow for "free trade") is handily
invoked in order to "justify" the slashing of any amount of services for the
poor or killing any environmental protection laws. Yet, those same
neo-liberals seem strangely silent when the government interferes with the
"invisible hand" of the market in their favor, such as repaying owning-class
investor's profits by S&L and peso bail-outs with tax-payer moneys, and
the wars fought by the government on foreign soil to prevent
people from asserting any national interest which would interfere with
American companies ability to rob and exploit them. Basically, the
neo-liberal actually advocates neo-liberalism for the other guy and
government nanny-state for himself.
The whole business of the self-regulating market is an abstraction only
invoked to justify its opposite.
--
Chris Caruso Check out: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ccaruso/
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