Monday, June 13, 2005
Debt and corruption. posted by Richard Seymour
For Rousseau , the first man who declared himself an owner was an imposter. For Proudhon, "property is theft" . Meanwhile, Bertolt Brecht wanted to know what crime robbing a bank was compared to founding one. Seeing as how Brecht was given to gutting the plots and characters of other plays for his own, you would expect him to say that. (He even, apparently, had scribbled several notes in the margins of his copy of Waiting for Godot, outlining how he might change the play into his own - making Pozzo into a capitalist and Vladimir and Estragon into workers. He allegedly died of a heart attack while working on this, although I think it much more likely that he snuffed it from sheer boredom).Anyway, what do you think of these crafty fuckers ? They've got some balls .