At 06:00 PM 12/11/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Stan,
>
>>Capitalism is not some impregnable
>>system we will destroy. It will self-destruct when the fuel runs out.
>
>I wish I was so certain.
>
>>You can not tease apart capitalism from
>>mechanized industrialism.
>
>This is true as far as the past and present are concerned. At least, it is
so if you
>don't look too closely at history.
>But why do you know it will be so in the future? Why do you think
capitalism will
>*necessarily* fail to adapt? On that important question, all I've heard
from marxists
>until now is circular and/or implying that the past will necesarily repeat
itself.
Not circular at all. Don't think of me as a marxist. Think of the motive
forces that drive capitalism. Then we aren't talking about one another,
but paying attention to what lies before us all. It's nature defies
control. Tolerance of the masses and nature define its limitations, not
the abstract adaptability of it's current cast of bosses.
>
>Julien
>
>
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