Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:21:56 -0600 (CST)
From: jelly-AT-mail.utexas.edu (Jessica and Sterlings Mail)
Subject: Re: M-I: Re: The Nike ad & environment


thanks for the thoughts, Rob!

>One simple proposition that I like - and you can see it in bourgeois
>commentaries (Thurow and Luttwak are two)
 
sorry, but I'm not familiar with either (I'm practically illiterate in
Marxist literature compared to most on this page; hint, hint- reading list
for intermediate level Marxists?)

>is that the aggregated consequence of rational decision makers is not
itself necessarily >rational.

agreed; if you give the pretext of order within this eco/biological system,
Earth, as a necessity, then, even if rational, the above would be, if
nothing else, paradoxical; I guess all this is given in Marxist ideology
anyway- that capitalism is truly contradictory to most basic needs of
people, and- post facto- other creatures, on this planet...

>If all capitalists are forced, by necessity, shareholders or 'rational
greed' to go the >same way

and they are/will be/have been...

>destruction is complete.

yes; but (see post to Gary as well), capitalism will make better and better
use of its meager resources, so that we don't see the brick wall until its
really REALLY too fucking late...

>Taken to its logical culmination, this means either capitalism goes or we do.

sigh...


sterling
Austin



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