I think that the phrase is almost always used ironically. ------Original Message------ From: Joanna Sender: [email protected] To: [email protected] ReplyTo: Progressive Economics Subject: [Pen-l] socialism and baling out big banks Sent: Mar 23, 2010 4:48 PM
Socialism for the rich is not socialism; it is capitalism without its usual circuit through the cycle of production. Period. In the same way that you can't talk about orgasms for the dead, you can't talk about socialism for the rich. It has no meaning except as a piece of irony. As for example if the quote from Vidal: "What we have in the U.S. is socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor." Joanna _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
