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Krugman's presence is causing something of a stir in the Social Media of the leftist Laborites. As I posted before I welcome that, because it is a crack in the TINA monolith. In fact in conversation with a Federal Labor member of parliament some time ago I urged him to campaign for a Krugman tour of Australia. But, at the same time, I am fundamentally puzzled as to why people will listen to Krugman and not to better economists like Michael Roberts or our own Rick Kuhn or Bill Mitchel. In his take on Hegel's Master-Slave dialectic Bhaskar wrote of how the slave wants reconciliation and mutual forgiveness with the master and not the abolition of all master-slave relations. Keynesianism seems to hold out the promise that the boss can once more be one's "mate".. But of course the historical fact is that the boss was seldom, if ever, the worker's mate. Corbyn's election campaign is also having something of an effect. Though, he would appear to be too radical for many of the soi-disant Labor Leftists. My explanation for all this is that there is a steady drift to the Left. This is based first of all as a rejection of austerity economics. There are also splits emerging within the intelligentsia many of whom are growing alarmed at the increasing likelihood of another economic crash. Here in Brisbane a number of capitalists also wrote an open letter to the Labor State government begging them to spend on infrastructure to "save Queensland". But it is the discontent among the people which is for me to the fore and the thought that as Murdoch puts it, they are becoming "ungovernable". comradely Gary _________________________________________________________ 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
