tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post3273217308710352620..comments2024-03-28T06:07:03.667-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: WHAT WE HAVE LOSTRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-21983499443751238432018-12-16T11:10:47.802-05:002018-12-16T11:10:47.802-05:00What I think we should ask is why has that occurre...What I think we should ask is why has that occurred. <br /><br />Obviously, as Jerry Fresia points out, capital will try to whittle away any progressive legislation, but why have the masses accepted this so passively?<br /><br />Marcuse gives some answers to my questions as do Adorno and Fromm, but they were all writing<br />over 50 years ago, if not longer ago, and the level of mystification seems to have increased since their time.<br /><br />Has and why has this increased mystification taken over the minds of most of us?s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-78698325269684369252018-12-16T11:00:43.431-05:002018-12-16T11:00:43.431-05:00Rick Wolff often makes the point that whatever pro...Rick Wolff often makes the point that whatever progressive legislation that is enacted in our system, say Glass–Steagall legislation, capital will find ways to whittle it away and then we have to start over again, which is another version of this blog.<br /><br />So the question arises, what freedom now that capital/party leaders have needs to be taken away? and how?Jerry Fresiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17566575038825699112noreply@blogger.com