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Monday, March 31, 2008
Economist Brad Delong on The Relevance of Karl Marx
"On the cash nexus, we modern neoliberals shrug our shoulders and say that we are in favor of a market economy but not of a market society, and that there is no reason why people cannot find jobs they like or insist on differentials that compensate them for jobs they don't. And we go on to say that the demand for and forecast of utopia--that jumped-up monkeys with big brains be perfectly happy--is a demand and forecast that belongs in the Book of Daniel or of the Apocalypse, not something that has any place in a work of political economy relevant to this fallen world."
"One is distressed by the failure of reasonable people to perceive either the depths of evil or the depths of the holy... [b]itterly disappointed at the un-reasonableness of the world, they see that their efforts must remain fruitless and they withdraw resignedly from the scene or yield unresistingly to the stronger party."--Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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