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Thanks Gary. I know PD wasn't all that happy with the word 'managing'. It probably would have been better to leave that word out and ended with "committed to." Phil On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Gary MacLennan <gary.maclenn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I snipped this from Comrade Duncan's fine post > > "Whether unemployment goes up or down under the next Labour government > won’t have anything much to do with the Labourites but will be the result > of the boom-and-bust global capitalist economy, the New Zealand section of > which Labour is totally committed to *managing*." (my emphasis) > > I actually do not think Labor is committed to managing anything. > Management in this period would entail a fiscal policy to address the > "liquidity trap" or "secular stagnation". In other words it would require > at least a turn to Keynesianism. NZ Labor do not seem to have made that > turn. In any case their counterparts over here in Oz, certainly have given > no indication that they will do anything other than stay on the "Reform" > bandwagon, that is they remain committed to neo-liberalism. > > So they will not manage capitalism. They will let it rip and drag us into > another Great Depression. > > <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > >> ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** >> #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. >> #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. >> #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. >> ***************************************************************** >> >> >> Empty Andy and the 'Eh?' team: >> https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/11/10/labour-the-eh-party/ >> >> NZ Labour - a bosses' party: >> >> https://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/the-truth-about-labour-a-bosses-party/ >> >> Phil >> _________________________________________________________ >> Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm >> Set your options at: >> http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gary.maclennan1%40gmail.com >> > > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
