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Subject: Re: Reich and Marx - Wed, 13 Mar 1996 20:46:58 -0500
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 20:46:58 -0500
From: zzippy@cris.com (Christopher T. Phillips)
Message-Id: <199603140135.UAA17639@darius.cris.com>
Subject: Re: Reich and Marx
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
>> >The whole business of the self-regulating market is an abstraction only
>> >invoked to justify its opposite.
Another generalisation, which could easily be taken as offensive,
especially by those who value the concept of a self-regulating economy dearly.
I'm afraid you can't dispense of it so easily.
>> 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?
>
>Yes, this is an accurate description of how neo-liberalism is invoked in
>contemporary American political discourse. It is the philosophy that
>underlies the "Contract on America," which is, objectively, the single
>biggest roll-back of civil rights in this century. It is the philosophy
>that underlies the "structural adjustments" that the IMF/World Bank
>imposes on Third World countries. I would say that it is the dominant
>ruling class ideology of the moment. And it should be exposed for what
>it is- pure hypocrisy.
>
>Does this apply to you? I have no idea. If you would like to argue for
>the benefits of the free market system in a consistent way, like a "true
>Capitalist," and explain why we need "the state to stop it's
>protectionistic and repressive economic policies," I am sincerely
>interested in hearing it.
>
>(Though, at this point, we seem to have strayed from the list topic.
>Perhaps this is better continued in e-mail?)
I think this has a great deal to do with Orgonomy. As long as mankind
remains severely armoured, irrationality, rage, will contine to dominate the
way Governments and Economic systems are run. The above discussion seems to
me a series of affirmations of the way things were supposed to be ideally,
i.e., the concept of a self-regulating economy, which i might add, could only
be Capitalistic in nature. Now, the conservatives <Republicans> supporting the
"Contract On America" SAY they want a free-market, but we know very well that
no matter what they say somehow things remain basically the same. No significant
changes are legislatively made to encourage a self-regulating economy, and
arn't likely to be made. Armoured man requires Statism, Statism requires
armoured
man. Political solutions work haphazardly, usually not at all. All the
wonderfull
talk about the "Proletariat" getting his "fair share" is for nought, and the
different economic and political philosophies blame each other for their
followers
failures.
And to all a good-night!
Thanx again
C. T. Phillips
<zzippy@concentric.net>
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