>>> CeJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/24/2008 10:04 PM >>> > ^^^^^ > CB: I don't that Marx , Engels or Lenin analyzed what precipitated > specific profit crises. Do you have an example of one of them analyzing > a specific crisis ?
Will get back to you on your question. But let me say: Perhaps my question should have been stated as the question as to whether or now there was a profit crisis. Regardless, I think M-E and Lenin would be very much interested in what is happening right now, don't you? ^^^^^ CB: Yes, , but I have this thing that Marxists shouldn't be focussed on how crises occur, but what how they impact the classes and class struggle, , if you follow me. They would be interested in what's happening now, as you say, but they would be interested in a different aspect of what's happening now than what "economists" are interested in . They would want to know how the crisis impacts class consciousness, class unity, the struggle between the classes right now. Do you see the distinction I'm making ? ^^^^^ Much of 'Marxism' takes as its problematic crises theses and, in the case of academic economics, such as it is (who is that, Jim Tomcat Devine and Michael Wimp Pereleman?), how to quantify labor theory of value. Yawn. ^^^^^ CB: See above. Marx didn't even leave a coherent theory of crises. People have to pick through his writing and construct one. A lot of the theory is in Vol. III which he didn't even bother to complete. I think that's because he didn't want Marxists to spend a lot of time analyzing the why and how of crises. He wanted them to concentrate on raising the class consciousness of the working class. The main thing needed is to demonstrate to the working class that capitalist wealth is exploited from them, and that mass immiseration at one end of the wealth pole is linked inextricably with wealth accumulation at the other end of the wealth pole, i.e. the Absolute General Law of Capitalist Accumulation. ^^^^^ Duff Henwood seems to have this thesis that every time a crisis pops up, once American capitalism overcomes that crisis, American capitalism has evolved closer to perfection while the left gets loonier. The guy is a genius! CJ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
