2 new papers by Marxian economist Alan Freeman archived at the CrashList website: NEW PARADIGM OR NEW PARASITISM? http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base/freeman2.doc CRISIS AND THE POVERTY OF NATIONS http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base/freeman3.doc Is there a "New Economy"? Whither the US? Alan Freeman writes: "We are in the middle of a period of unstable and partial recovery whose core is a renewed struggle, between leading industrial powers, to reconstitute national profit rates at the expense of their rivals, in and through a struggle for the domination of all those sources of surplus profits that arise from the control of territory and markets; that is, a period characterised, albeit with specific differences, by a return to classical imperialism." "The price of recovery from general crisis necessarily includes a general reorganisation of the world market, including all that goes with this: a reorganisation of its territories, wars of intervention, the forcible imposition of the necessary market relations where necessary against the will of the nations concerned, and so on. It means that the exit from one kind of catastrophe is, in the last analysis, another kind of catastrophe. The idea that the market itself, if left to itself will simply restore the conditions for its own existence, does not hold. The evidence confirms Marxs original judgement of a hundred and thirty years ago that the market itself sets the limits on its own existence; to this we must however add that the automatic processes of the market are not the only ones in the world; no ruling class has ever voluntarily surrendered its existence, and there is no evidence of any intrinsic limit on the barbarism and destructiveness of which it is capable: on the contrary, each new exit from general crisis reaches previously inconceivable heights of it. As a way out therefore, what is now happening can only be regarded by the human race with the most extreme distrust." _______________________________________________ CrashList website: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base
