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. --- from list marxism-intro-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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