Now, we will hum the notes of a Progressive interlude.

Is Capitalism Exhibit A for socially structured concupiscence?  Does Marx’s “surplus value” equate to “a craving for capital”?  Are developing nations, like Peru and China, co-dependents of the social “concupiscence” of the United States of America?  Does social “concupiscence” destroy the environment?  Does it steal life from the future?

Peters stated, in most Progressive terms, that denial lies at the heart of concupiscence.

What do we deny?  We reject our own limits and that rejection is expressed through the consumption of someone else’s life giving power.

To make a long story short: Capitalism sucks.

Ironically, Peters’ critique projects the arrogance of Progressivism onto the straw man of Capitalism.  Progressives deny limits for the central government.  The central government grows by consuming someone else’s life giving powers.

When that long story is made short, we won’t be so smug about it: Progressivism sucks capital.

So what does “capital” mean?