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March 19, 2007

take that, Brooklyn-Marxists-in-tight-pants

Camille Paglia on capitalism:
Capitalism, which spawned modern individualism as well as the emancipated woman who can support herself, is essentially Darwinian. It expands any society's sum total of wealth and radically raises the standard of living, but it leaves the poor and weak without a safety net. Capitalism needs the ethical counter-voice of leftism to keep it honest. But leftists must be honest in turn about what we owe to capitalism -- without which Western women would have no professional jobs to go to but would be stuck doing laundry by hand and stooping over pots on the hearth fire all day long.

4 Comments:

Blogger Zombiehellmonkey said...

"Capitalism, which spawned modern individualism..."

Certainly modernism, but I'm not so sure about the individualism.

9:27 PM  
Blogger Savvy1007 said...

Anyone who wants to live in a communist countries can go suck real hard on a toilet pipe!!!

8:56 AM  
Anonymous Matt Penn said...

Camile Paglia has it bass-ackward--individuals pre-date capital.

7:08 PM  
Blogger Dave O'Gara said...

Other things spawned by capitalism:

Child labor, global climate change, the rise of the military industrial complex and hence many many unneeded wars, all manner of third world exploitation, a consumer culture where wealth is respected above intelligence or decency, animal experimentation, big paharmaceuticals etc. etc. etc.

Sorry for the run on sentence grammar girl. :)

3:34 PM  

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