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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (18981)	5/14/2002 10:39:54 PM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>Understandable, but regrettable that the basic game of capitalism has no soul and doesn't really care about human communities. This is a Marxian conceit. Capitalism is as natural, and as human, as any other economic system. Though the winners and losers in a particular variant of capitalism are not the ones that you would prefer, this does not mean that the losers are any less "grasping" than the winners. When you say that capitalism "doesn't really care about human communities," do you mean that it appears to care, but that this is not in truth the case (Marx's "false consciousness"), or do you mean that it does not care much? What do you mean by "human communities"? Is there an economic endeavor that is not a form of human community (whether or not you approve of the resulting community)? The floor of the NYSE and the General Electric workforce are communities. Certainly capitalism is interested in their fate.