The new system will be the results of an infinity of individual pressures. What sort of nonsense is that. I do not see any evidence that the present crisis is leading to a new system that is not capitalist. At most it will lead to some changes in existing capitalism involving regulation of financial markets globally if possible and more government involvement as a means of bailing out or hospitalizing ailing parts of the system until they recover and handed back to private profiteers. There certainly seems no difference in the US political system. Everything is framed in terms of the two capitalist parties and the same illusions are sold about change and the same bipartisan imperialist foreign policy espoused by both parties.
cheers k hanly Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html --- On Sat, 11/1/08, Sandwichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Sandwichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Pen-l] The Depression: A Long-Term View > To: "PEN-L list" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, November 1, 2008, 11:36 PM > Immanuel Wallerstein > > "We can assert with confidence that the present system > cannot survive. > What we cannot predict is which new order will be chosen > to replace > it, because it will be the result of an infinity of > individual > pressures. But sooner or later, a new system will be > installed. This > will not be a capitalist system but it may be far worse > (even more > polarizing and hierarchical) or much better (relatively > democratic and > relatively egalitarian) than such a system. The choice of > a new > system is the major worldwide political struggle of our > times." > > http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/wallerstein161008.html > > -- > Sandwichman > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
