Posted in Capitalism, Politics, Simone Weil on June 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Let us not forget that we want to make the individual, and not the collectivity, the supreme value. We want to form whole men by doing away with that specialization which cripples us all. We want to give to manual labour that dignity which belongs to it of right, by giving workmen the [...]
Posted in Capitalism, Quotes on March 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“The diminished and impoverished Crown could no longer stand. It fought against the new wealth the struggle of the Civil Wars; it was utterly defeated; and when a final settlement was arrived at in 1660 you have all the realities of power in the hands of a small powerful class of wealthy men, the [...]
Posted in Capitalism, Quotes on March 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“For a society in which the determinant mass of families were owners of capital and of land; for one in which production was regulated by self-governing corporations of small owners; and for one in which the misery and insecurity of a proletariat was unknown, there came to be substituted the dreadful moral anarchy against which [...]
Posted in Badiou, Capitalism, Quotes on January 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
For each identification (the creation or cobbling together of identity) creates a figure that provides a material for its investment by the market. There is nothing more captive, so far as commercial investment is concerned, nothing more amenable to the invention of new figures of monetary homogeneity, than a community and its territory or [...]
Posted in Capitalism, McCarraher on January 28, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Here is a fascinating passage from Eugene McCarraher’s recent review in Books and Culture, “Break on Through to the Other Side.”
The Confession of Sin makes no sense unless the world is a place of abundance. A world of scarcity—the ontological template of capitalist economics—mandates a “balancing” of virtues, a mealy allocation of limited resources in [...]
Posted in Capitalism, McCabe, McCarraher, Quotes on January 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I want to offer a quotation sandwich. When I read these quotes Barak Obama came to mind as he appears to be running on the Jim Wallis “Religious Values Matter” campaign (check out Obama’s speech “Call to Renewal”). I have to be honest, I am very intrigued by Obama, but for all his [...]
Posted in Capitalism, Politics, Socialism on December 28, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I came across this insightful passage in Herbert McCabe’s Law, Love & Language (thanks Halden!). For some reason I had never connected the fact/value split with production before:
Very roughly the bourgeois industrialised society is one in which men come into relationship, form a community, hence come to agreement and thus to ‘truth’, only in [...]
Posted in Capitalism, Hauerwas, McCarraher, Politics, Voting/Elections on December 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
A rather cheeky post has recently appeared on Danny Jenkins’ “Musing on the Theo-Political,” entitled “What Stanley Hauerwas Does to Young Boys.” The post consisted entirely of a quote from Halden’s post about why he isn’t going to vote, wherein he argues that voting is merely a choice between two terrible options that have [...]
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