tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post7686270091527108934..comments2023-09-25T04:26:51.568-06:00Comments on The Barefoot Bum: On conservatismLarry Hamelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-58705390566182624062018-01-21T05:30:29.454-07:002018-01-21T05:30:29.454-07:00To be consistent, the above should read, "......To be consistent, the above should read, "... for all their <b>injustices</b>..."Larry Hamelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-62354174512433170642018-01-21T05:27:32.557-07:002018-01-21T05:27:32.557-07:00While I certainly condemn plagiarism, mirroring is...While I certainly condemn plagiarism, mirroring is not reproduction. I mean reproduction in the ordinary sense: making sure that the capitalist system continues to function tomorrow, next year, twenty years from now, and when everyone now living has died.<br /><br />I also don't really look at capitalism as the perpetration of economic <i>crimes</i>. Crimes are deviations from <i>local</i> norms, and capitalists certainly do not deviate from local norms. Capitalists do what they are supposed to do — they obey local norms — and they do it for what actually is, from a specific perspective, the greater social good.<br /><br />A socialist society should not punish the capitalists. We should instead give them all medals and either recruit them into the civil service or afford them a comfortable retirement. For all their crimes, they did a great service to humanity.Larry Hamelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-19607966991300323642018-01-19T10:43:54.185-07:002018-01-19T10:43:54.185-07:00Larry, I have an off topic question, hope you don&...Larry, I have an off topic question, hope you don't mind.<br /><br />I have a question about capitalist reproduction that I am not quite understanding. Remember when you talked about how the relations in academia <i>reproduce</i> the relations in capitalism?<br /><br />In Atlas Drugged (the 99-percenter counterpoint to Atlas Shrugged), there is a scene in which various capitalists are made to stand trial at the People's Court for various economic crimes that they allegedly committed. An elite member of the academic PMC, an esteemed professor at an esteemed university, is also made to stand trial at the People's Court along with them. <br /><br />This professor's alleged crime is that he stole the work of his graduate student who had died in a car crash, and plagiarized it, then passed it off as his own book. <br /><br />Atlas Drugged's author, Stephen Goldstein, I think was making the point during the People's Court scene that the exploitation of this professor's graduate student and the plagiarism/theft of his work <b>mirrors</b> the capitalists' commission of various exploitative economic crimes against the workers, for which they too are on trial at the People's Court.<br /><br />So I just want to know whether I'm on base or off base. What I understand what you mean by "academia <b>reproduces</b> capitalism" is that it <b>mirrors</b> that exploitation in its own peculiar way according to the peculiarity of itself.Dustin Vinland Jarlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06321791031988119649noreply@blogger.com