tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post8330568595670494062..comments2024-03-18T17:28:44.693-07:00Comments on Rondam Ramblings: Funny you should mention that...Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11752242624438232184noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-15793204929325811282013-02-13T11:32:00.856-08:002013-02-13T11:32:00.856-08:00And one more thing, I just remember, a guy with th...And one more thing, I just remember, a guy with the funny name Vladimir Ilyich Lenin once wrote in his book on "Imperialism" about the "revolving door" between banks and the state. Though I don't know if it was German banks or Russian banks that served as an example.<br /><br />These are the "natural forces" Engels wrote about: <i>blindly, forcibly, destructivelyTony Machhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14823430729798784689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-44278274143966869722013-02-13T10:53:36.842-08:002013-02-13T10:53:36.842-08:00I've been singled out! :-)
A chap named Engel...I've been singled out! :-)<br /><br />A chap named Engels once had an comment about “regulatory capture”:<br /><br /><i>" … And the modern state, again, is only the organisation that bourgeois society takes on in order to support the general external conditions of the capitalist mode of production against the encroachments as well of the workers as of individual capitalists. The modern Tony Machhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14823430729798784689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-35634113671790553742013-02-12T10:15:41.668-08:002013-02-12T10:15:41.668-08:00Just a long time lurker here. I enjoy your blog qu...Just a long time lurker here. I enjoy your blog quite a bit. After this rambling thought, I'll go back to lurking.<br /><br />As a late 40-something middle class father of three, I can no longer afford Existential Crisis.<br /><br />During my youth, it was quite the rage. Into married life it was tempered by the presence of spouse. When the first child arrive, it was replaced with unbridled toddbothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00551771132277351922noreply@blogger.com