On 13 Mar 2005, at 12:52, Mikal Howard wrote:
> capitalism is ultimatley anti - intellectual, tomas,
> capitalism is anti-intellectual.
> because intellectuals...might see through it. know that
> the king capitalists in the united states are
> represented by GEORGE W. BUSH! capitalism is anti
> intellectual/
But then on the other hand Noam Chomsky considers the intellectual
community to often be complicit in promoting the capitalist doctrine
within democratic society.
e.g.
..."This is the sort of newspeak Orwell referred to when he was
speaking about the Soviet Union," he said, "but here we have it in a
very free society with nobody noticing it." Given a "sufficiently
servile intellectual class," observed Chomsky, "free societies can
function in a highly totalitarian way."
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/1295/9512030.html
But this is getting way off -topic...
Steve
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