From: GFunk-AT-pseud.pseud
Subject: M-INTRO: Femmy Capitalists!
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 03:37:26 -0700


I knew the title would get your attention.  I digress, but I have so much to 
discuss and not the brain power to do it in an organized way... To me, 
people are taking attacks and criticisms at capitalism a little too 
personally.  When I or other cynical people take stabs at capitalism I am in 
no way saying that capitalists are bad, cold hearted jerks.  They just had 
the personality, drive, and opportunities to put them in that position in 
the system.  Generally we are kind of thrown into certain careers and life 
choices without much choice due to external influences.  The problem I see 
in all these arguments for and against 
capitalism/socialism/communism/marxism/etc are problems of rhetoric.  People 
take the term "free markets" and equate it as personal freedom, which though 
it can be linked to an individuals freedom it doesn't necessarily have to.  
The notion of free markets isn't bad until the laws, attitudes that these 
free markets exist under limit the action of free markets to profit 
acquisition as it primary and only objective, which bypasses more 
fundamentally important qualitative attributes of life such as health, 
environment, society, etc.

Furthermore, the vanilla sky argument is a poor attempt to see an 
egalitarian society as more than the one we are living in now.  All feminist 
economics, as I was taught at the U of U, aims for is an egalitarian, free 
society with justice and fairness as its main goals, not oppression.  
Feminism aims for a more fair way of doing things, not a theoretically 
perfect fairness, which is unattainable and absurd.  Though it is easier to 
argue in terms of extremes it isn't realistic or particularly that helpful.




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