File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2004/lyotard.0404, message 18


From: "Eric" <ericandmary-AT-earthlink.net>
Subject: RE: politics
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 09:24:22 -0600


Steve,

I am hopelessly misquoting, but wasn't it Keynes who wrote somewhere
that most people who say they have formed their own opinions are
actually only parroting the ideas of some long-dead economist.

eric


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-lyotard-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
[mailto:owner-lyotard-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU] On Behalf Of
steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 4:16 AM
To: lyotard-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Re: politics

Hugh

The problem with all your statements is that you never make any attempt 
to answer the question you pose below.  Nor do you ever appreciate the 
attempts  made by  european theorists to develop an answer to the
questions.

The challenge then is precisely what is your own answer to the implicit 
question ?

s


>Capital vs. labor was a 20th Ccntury struggle and giant Corporations
won.
>Our "democracy" is what these plutocrats make it.
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>The question is how to recover our lost democracy and control
corporations.
>The present situation can  be delineated but not in Marx's 150 year-old
>philosophy.
>
>regards,
>Hugh
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