baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Right, me first up:
have been mulling the possible parallels between capitalism and addiction. From Marx:
“As capitalist,” a man comes to have “one single life-impulse, the tendency to create value and surplus-value, to make ... the means of production absorb the greatest possible amount of surplus-value” ;
In his monomania to accumulate, the capitalist is like “an automaton ... endowed with intelligence and will, animated by the longing to reduce to a minimum the resistance offered by that repellent yet elastic natural barrier, man.”
This expands on what I have always seen as the pure insanity of those who have more money than they can ever spend, only to want more - it seems to me strikingly similar to more commonly considered addictions, say for drugs, or porn - only MORE will fill the void.
Obviously I can read Marx for more, but any other references gratefully received!
have been mulling the possible parallels between capitalism and addiction. From Marx:
“As capitalist,” a man comes to have “one single life-impulse, the tendency to create value and surplus-value, to make ... the means of production absorb the greatest possible amount of surplus-value” ;
In his monomania to accumulate, the capitalist is like “an automaton ... endowed with intelligence and will, animated by the longing to reduce to a minimum the resistance offered by that repellent yet elastic natural barrier, man.”
This expands on what I have always seen as the pure insanity of those who have more money than they can ever spend, only to want more - it seems to me strikingly similar to more commonly considered addictions, say for drugs, or porn - only MORE will fill the void.
Obviously I can read Marx for more, but any other references gratefully received!