When Marx returned to London from a vacation in Germany during which 
some aristocratic friends had wined and dined him, someone asked him: 
That kind of entertainment wouldn't be available under socialsm. Marx 
replied,I'll be dead by then.

The cave paintings of southern France (which include poor ones, sort of 
scribbles, at the lower parts of the walls, indicating youthful 
practice)  seem to reflect a certain joy in being alive, and yet those 
poor  saps didn't have MacBooks. What foolishness to measure a set of 
human relations by the gimcracks they produce. I got through grad school 
using a Royal portable, that skidded all over the desk when one typed. 
How come capitalism hadn't provided me with a computer. It's sort of 
entertaining to come across these scraps of Michael B's ranting when 
others quote him. I wonder if socialism will ever produce that kind of 
entertainment. Probably.

Carrol

On 10/7/2011 5:36 PM, Larry Romsted wrote:
> Sure.
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> Larry
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> From:  Michael Balter<[log in to unmask]>
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> Could socialism have produced the MacBook? I hope so.
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> MB
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