http://www.jeremystangroom.com The web site of Jeremy Stangroom. Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:33:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.jeremystangroom.com/socialist-wisdom/219/ http://www.jeremystangroom.com/socialist-wisdom/219/#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:35:30 +0000 Jeremy Stangroom http://www.jeremystangroom.com/?p=219 I know I shouldn’t laugh at socialists, but… this post contains what I think must be the most absurd example of Marxist ‘economic determinism’ I’ve ever read: “the police officer who comes to your home in response to a burglary or an incident of vandalism with a sympathetic ear and a commitment to your needs at that particular moment, is the same police officer who when deployed at a demonstration against the very institutions responsible for people losing their homes is ready, able, and willing to put a baton over your head…Social being determines consciousness, and the primary role of the police in any capitalist society is that of a weapon in the hands of a state controlled by the few at the expense of the many.” This is then followed by a commentator earnestly commanding that nobody forget “the guy whose name I’ve sadly forgotten” (I kid you not)!

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