> Max Sawicky wrote, > > >Declaiming against capitalism per se, even with an endless amount of lurid detail, is an utter waste of time as far as politics is concerned. > > And what of the legitimacy of a totalitarian "politics" that makes fundamental questioning of the political economy a "waste of time"? > Now now. How can I be a totalitarian? I can't even compel my colleagues at EPI to buy my line on Social Security. I did allow that the questioning is useful in an intellectual context, which does have political ramifications. Question all you like. I'm listening. We capitalist ideologues like to keep on top of that stuff. mbs
