Cornelius Castoriadis, The Great French Social Philosopher

Community Is Like A Big Family.

I Suspect That One Of Capitalism's Crucial Assets Derives From The Fact That The Imagination Of Economists, Including Its Critics, Lags Well Behind Its Own Inventiveness, The Arbitrariness Of Its Undertaking And The Ruthlessness Of The Way In Which It Proceeds.

I Was Watching The Tv Broadcasts Interviewing People Stranded At Airports For Days On End, Losing Their Holidays, Their Important Business Meetings And The Long-awaited Ability To See Their Families... In Short, Suffering. No One Complained, Though! They Kept Repeating: We Are So Grateful For The Care Taken Of Our Safety, For Feeling. They Were Ready To Surrender A Good Deal Of Their Human Dignity, Individuality, Freedom Of Choice.

We Are Living At The Moment In Revolutionary Times. Argentineans Probably Are More Aware Of It Than Anybody Else, Because They Tasted It Several Years Earlier - But Now The Whole World Is In Trouble.

As The Run-by-capital Society Of Producers Turned Since Into The Run-by-capital Society Of Consumers, I Would Say That The Main, Indeed "meta", Function Of The Governments Has Become Now To Assure That It Is The Meetings Between Commodities And The Consumers, And Credit Issuers And The Borrowers, That Regularly Take Place.