--- On Sun, 2/1/09, Jim Devine wrote:
I think Marx was right that as long as we have capitalism, there will be business cycles of some sort -- or the problem will be shifted in some way (to cause inflation, at the expense of another country, etc.) Social-democratic or Keynesian management of an economy doesn't change the underlying problems of capitalism, though it might lead to a period of apparent stability. Even if it does stabilize, the incentive for capitalists is to undermine and/or get around that kind of management, eventually destroying it.^^^^^CB: Yes. This is why I'm thinking Marx would not finishhis theory of crises. Because he didn't think they couldbe ended anyway. So, why perfect a theory of them ? And practice of such theory as reforms would eventually detract fromrevolutionary projects.^^^^I don't have time to explain why I think that's true.^^^CB: As long as there is exploitation, there will becrises, 'cause exploitation restricts the consumptionof the masses, and"The ultimate reason for all real crises always remains the poverty and restricted consumption of the masses as opposed to the drive of capitalist production to develop the productive forces as though only the absolute consuming power of society constituted their outer limit "
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