Skit 1
(专辑: Soundtrack To The Struggle 2 - 2019)
So Karl Polanyi, who you quote in the
book, writes, "There are two kinds of freedom: one good and the
other bad." Among the
latter, he listed, "The freedom to exploit one's fellows, the
freedom to make inordinate gains without commensurable service to the
community. The
freedom to keep technological innovations from being used for public benefit. Or the
freedom to profit from public calamities secretly engineered for private advantage. But," Polanyi continued, "the market economy under which these freedoms throes [?], also produce freedoms we prize highly: freedoms of conscience; freedom of speech; freedom of meaning; freedom of association; freedom to choose one's own job. While we might cherish these freedoms for their own sake, and I'm sure many of us still do, they were, to a
large extent, by-products of the
same economy that was responsible for the
evil freedoms. And yet, it seems, in this late stage of capitalism, that those evil freedoms have vanquished the
other freedoms."