Any Rand

[Otto]

Look at the wages, the statistics on almost everything:

Children in families below the poverty level
Living arrangements of children (two parents or only one)
Educational attainment
Median income of families
Percentages of black and white persons arrested for crimes
Unemployment

Growing up black in the US never has been a nice thing.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Kenny
To: mikenny79 at hotmail.com ; ottosell at yahoo.de ; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 1:03 AM
Subject: Re: Any Rand


I'm sorry--I didn't make a relevant point in my response below to Northern
slavery.  My only response is: how did racism serve Northern capitalism?
I'm unclear on that.
--Mike Kenny

me.
>>As we all know today that it's a myth that this had been done for moral
>>reasons.  The absence of slavery in the Northern states did not mean the
>>absence of racism. Racism served very well in capitalism to have large
>>numbers of low-paid workers at its disposal.

Mike:
>Capitalism can't operate with slave labor since it relies on free people
making contracts with >each other of their own free will.  Ayn Rand is clear
on this and so slavery and capitalism >can't exist together.  If there is
slavery in a system, it isn't capitalism.

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