Dead certain

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From: DF

Toronto, 18 vi 09

As I was reading this morning about the imminent gutting of the Carbon Control legislation by coal state Democrats, I was reminded of the trenchant footnote at the end of Chapter 31 in Kapital vol. 1.  Marx is quoting one T. J. Dunning: "Capital eschews no profit, or very small profit, just as Nature was formerly said to abhor a vacuum. With adequate profit capital is very bold.  A certain 10% will ensure its employment anywhere; 20% certain will produce eagerness; 50%, positive audacity; 100% will make it ready to trample on all human laws; 300% and there is not a crime at which it will scruple, nor a risk it will not run, even to the chance of its owner being hanged."

Do these people - the congressmen, the coal executives & workers - not have children? Do they not hope to have grandchildren? Do they really wish an early and awful death upon their descendants?

But Capital never did bounce a child on its knee, did it?


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