File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1996/96-07-06.052, message 17


Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 08:33:02 -0600 (CST)
From: Christopher Coleman <coleman-AT-library.vanderbilt.edu>
Subject: Re:



> 
> >Both Marx and Deleuze and Guattari, who have at least 3 brain cells
> >between them, argue that this "limited amount of material goods" is a
> >capitalist construction, not some base on which we construct our
> >economic system.   "Lack" is produced.
> 
> Obviously they never looked out their front doors to see the overpopulation
> and the decreasing space and food, water, etc, available.

I knew someone would be dull enough to say something like this.  None 
of these three are saying that there are no needs, no hunger, no 
poverty.  But do you really think that poverty in a capitalist nation 
is produced by lack of food and water?  Do you really think that 
there are just not enough resources in America to feed everyone?  


> 
> Jeff
> 
> JLN
> jlnich1-AT-pop.uky.edu
> Department of Philosophy
> University of Kentucky
> Lexington, KY. 40509
> 
> 
> 


   

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