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> On Apr 20, 2020, at 11:00 PM, MM <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Apr 20, 2020, at 10:23 PM, John Edmundson via Marxism >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> What I don't understand is how MMT can be simultaneously a progressive >> approach compatible with socialism and also a good strategy for capitalist >> survival. Mike Roberts seems to have similar misgivings. I think these may >> have been posted here before but seem pertinent to this discussion. > > The mistake you’re making is in thinking that MMT is inherently a > political-economic “ideology” that is trying to “compete” with “Marxism” — > and that therefore must be either pro-capitalist or anti-capitalist. > > Do you believe the same of chemistry? Biology? Physics? Math? > > This is the mistake that Michael Roberts makes, and it’s what makes his > “critique” essentially worthless. > > None of this will make any sense if you’re not willing to read the source > literature. “I have not yet been persuaded that the study of physics is inherently anti-capitalist, and therefore I refuse to make any serious effort to understand physics.” Maybe the stakes get clearer when we put the argument that way. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
