Your barbed wire fence is a metaphor for either/or in a context which
allows for variety of choices along several boundaries.  There are other,
more significant parameters which can make some forms of capitalism quite
productive and unifying across all classes or, on the other hand, allow
it to be an efficient medium for oppression.  Your statement smacks of
"if your not with me you're against me (or my agenda)"  which is useful
in politics but not in rational discourse.

On Sat, 21 Jun 1997 15:16:02 +1100 Bill Bartlett
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> If Gailbraith isn't a pro-capitalist economist then what is he? An
>anti-capitalist? We are all one or the other in the final analysis -
>Chomsky is anti. I'm anti.

>Lets not mice words here, we're all entitled to our opinion and we all
>have
>different shades of opinion, but you can't stand on both sides of a
>barbed
>wire fence.
>
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>
>Bill Bartlett
>Bracknell Tasmania
>