From: "Hadgi" <hadgi-AT-centrum.cz>
Subject: Re: AUT: Euthanasia
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 00:08:29 +0100


The tendency in progress nowadays in the post-stalinist countries is clear,
at least in Czech: the government keeps insisting on rising the age limit,
when people can go on retirement. So they want to squeeze the maxium out of
workers, counting on that some of them will die in the middle of the process
of exploitation and other will not live so long to be burden for the budget.

The most common argument is, that old people have to work, because
demographicly we are a society with high percentage of older people (I would
like to see them changing their approach, if more children would be born!).
It does not matter however, to refuse thousands of asylum seeker and promote
racism against the workers from abroad.

I find hard to imagine, that the conservative elements of the ruling class
would promote euthanasia. They rule also thanks to their ideology and such a
thing could make a reasonable gap in it. There are other forms, how achieve
the similiar aim: e.g. here, pension retired people get is really desperate.
Old people might get sick  from just living in the flat, which they can not
afford to make warm during the winter. And also, they can not afford to pay
for the medicine (which used to be free). So I would guess, that mass
capitalist euthanasia is underway...

hadgi

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Ceterum autem censeo, capitalismus esse delendam.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Handelman <mhandelman1-AT-yahoo.com>
To: <aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 4:02 AM
Subject: Re: AUT: Euthanasia


> Instead of the Conservative Right, supporting it in
> the US, what if it was corporate liberals, who try to
> push for the liberalization of Euthenasia laws?
>
> Could Dkorvikian (don't know how to spell it), have
> gotten so much attention from the media as a result of
> efforts by certain "progressive" segments of capital
> to try to liberalize euthenasia laws?




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