Carrol Cox wrote:
  > Nonsense. It is true that an economic crisis in one place can,
> potentially, plunge the whole world economy into deep crisis. That would
> cause misery for millions, perhaps billions, of people around the world.
> That misery could go on a long time, with minor variations. Or the
> variations could be fairly sharp in the "economy" but not help many
> people. We've all heard the phrase, "jobless recovery." A lot of
> individual capitalists and capitalist firms might go down the tubes as
> well.
> 
> The chief political effect of this for a number of years would be mass
> depoliticization as people scurried to find indiviudal solutions to
> riding out the bad times. 
> 
> It represents no particular threat to Capitalism as a social system at
> all.

By this logic, Switzerland should be home to the most radical working 
class in the world rather than devastated Greece. Yodeelaydeehoo.
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