David Shemano: > This does not appear to explain why children of bourgeois occcasionally > oppose the existing economic order, or why children of the working class > support it.<
strains of the system don't explain that? well, I would add that there's more to life than capitalism. Families are often dysfunctional for reasons that are only partly associated with capitalism _per se_. Relationships of patriarchy (which involve not only the domination of women by men, but the domination of the young by the old) also contribute. > Since communism is not a contradictory by definition, I assume opposition is > not possible, except as a mental disorder?< yes (for physically-based mental disorders, not the ones seen by commisars and corporate types when encountering opposition). But to quote Ayn Rand for a different context, communism is an "unknown ideal." The real worlds of socialism of various sorts is much more complicated. -- Jim Devine "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
