On 13/01/12 10:09, Simon Biggs wrote: > Hi Tiziana > > Thanks for your thoughtful post, responding to Dmytri's and Adam's > provocative texts. > > Interesting you ask whether the internet will have an impact on the > current crisis in the world economy? Perhaps the internet is part of > the reason for the crisis? The world is going through a period of > fundamental geo-political change driven by globalisation. I wonder if > it isn't a "crisis in capitalism" (that might be wishful thinking) > but another stage in its evolution.
Crises *are* evolutionary periods in capitalism, always have been. A period of consolidation, reorganisation of debt and shedding of the worn out. That would be no news to a (Marxist) political economist. m -- http://commoning.wordpress.com "...I thought we were an autonomous collective..." _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
