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irrational for who? what do you people mean by 'rational'?
is class exploitation irrational? is unemployment irrational in a capitalist
economy?
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CB: No doubt "rational" can be calculated from a number of means/ends relationships,
but the one I would focus on is rational from the standpoint of the group of people as
a whole, which with more and more globalization gets to be from the standpoint of the
human species as a whole. This is a link with democracy, which has as a first
principle Popular Sovereignty or The People as a Whole, now the People of the whole
world as a Whole - All Power to all the People as a Whole. This is not easy to
fulfill :>), but it is the goal or principle we must aim for as democrats. Even if we
just stick to the U.S. and its people as a whole, or Detroit and its people as a
whole, the first measure of the rational is that how does it impact the group _as a
whole_ ?
So, class exploitation may be rational for a tiny minority , but the "commanding" and
first rational test is "how does it impact the People as a whole, to a person, every
last one of them ? "
>From a philosophical standpoint , we must start with the whole, and then to the
>parts, majority, minority, individual.
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