LFC

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Kenny
To: ottosell at yahoo.de ; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: Any Rand

> Is this an explanation of how the Northern capitalism benefits
> from racism?

I do think so, yes. All these statistical facts derive from the pure
capitalist ideology that everybody is the master of his own luck. The
statistics show the effects of slavery & genocides that have made white
America rich, on a larger scale of the Western world at the cost of the
former colonies, the so-called Third World.

> I'm not contesting black people are statistically
> worse off than white people in terms of education and wealth,
> or that black families tend to have a single female parent running
> them.

It's good that you do so. I could give you the numbers too. The source is
the Department of Commerce (!), Bureau of the Census.

> But to say Northern capitalism (I assume you mean anyone
>engaging in free trade in the North) benefits from any of this is unclear
to me.
>

No, I don't mean anyone, I mean the "system" in general (Rob has called it
"institutional racism") that relies on low wages, high unemployment, bad
housing (ghettos) etc, a system that chose private property over welfare and
than whines about juvenile delinquency, drug abuse, abortions etc.

The worst about it is that even well-meaning employers cannot afford to pay
higher wages if they want to stay in a market where competition is
everything.

For me the mere idea of LFC is social Darwinism and the modern equivalent of
the ancient homo homini lupus est. I don't think that this was meant in the
American constitution. The German "Grundgesetz" says explicitly:

Art. 14
(1) Das Eigentum und das Erbrecht werden gewährleistet. Inhalt und Schranken
werden durch die Gesetze bestimmt.
(2) Eigentum verpflichtet. Sein Gebrauch soll zugleich dem Wohle der
Allgemeinheit dienen.

Otto

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