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Subject: Re: Reich and Marx - Tue, 12 Mar 1996 20:11:15 -0500
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 20:11:15 -0500
From: zzippy@cris.com (Christopher T. Phillips)
Message-Id: <199603130054.TAA07596@darius.cris.com>
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Re: Reich and Marx
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.
What an unfair generalisation! A true Capitalist would never
support the double-standard hypocrisy you've described. Only Statists,
who peddle favors and vie for political power support such a hideous
situation here in America.
I'm not certain if Neo-Liberalism is an appropriate label for
those who support the concept of a self-regulating economic system.
And I certainly disagree that everyone in America supporting free-market
economics wants 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."
Do you really beleive this? Do you think it is an accurate dipiction
of those of us that want the state to stop it's protectionistic and
repressive economic policies? And is it fair to lump us in with the
ultra-conservatives that are in bed with big-business, trying to
cater to their special-interests?
>
>--
>Chris Caruso Check out: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ccaruso/
>ccaruso@sas.upenn.edu http://www.igc.org/fair/
>Philadelphia, PA USA http://www.mcs.com/~jdav/league.html
>
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Thanks again!
C. T. Phillips
<zzippy@concentric.net>
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