File spoon-archives/marxism-intro.archive/marxism-intro_1997/97-02-04.192, message 69


From: MANUEL-AT-pseud.pseud
Subject: RE: M-INTRO: Future Externalities
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 23:12:20 -0500


Roger writes (about primitive acumulation):
 
> Assuming you believe there is a continuum of how capitalists acquired
their
> property, where one end is such illegitimate means as you have described
and
> the other end is legitimate means, where on the continuum do you believe
is
> the average capitalist?  Do you believe that 90% of them illegitimately
> acquired their property?  10%?

I'm in no position of teaching marxism to anyone, but IMHO Ricard was
talking of capitalists as a CLASS, not as individuals. It's completely
irrelevant, from this point of view, if a particular capitalist (or 10% of
them) is a good guy and inherited or otherwise "legitimately" acquired his
property. The fact is capitalists as a class ILLEGITIMATELY own the means
of production that should belong to all mankind.



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