On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Marvin Gandall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a result certain Marxists, including Peter Taaffe, Lynn Walsh, Robert > Brenner - and now Hillel Ticktin in the Weekly Worker - have asserted that > this is the deepest crisis that capitalism has faced in decades, one that > poses the potential possibility of a repeat of the 1930s great depression. > Ticktin says: "The question at the moment is not really whether there is a > downturn. It is clear that is the case. The question is whether there is a > depression - and I think there is." And he adds, apocalyptically, that the > "system itself could disintegrate".
FWIW, Joseph Stiglitz didn't disagree very much at all, except with the last point. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
