Comments for Who said Marx wasn’t Green? at http://atlanticfreepress.com , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://atlanticfreepress.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:45:20 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/2314-who-said-marx-wasnt-green.html#comment-2907 on the Right as well as on the Left. Each side cries about the others' resort to politically correct language but both sides use the tactic whenever they find it necessary to endure the pain of discussing their dirty little secrets. As you say: "The Economist of course recognised that for capitalism, Summers was stating the real deal but merely objected to his spelling it out in such stark terms." In this particular case, [u]The Economist[/u] objects because it's editors all understand that, stripped of all intellectual trappings, it's a mighty short trip from Ricardo's Iron Law to Soylent Green. - Jimmy Montague Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:32:13 +0100