Carrol Cox wrote: > Only Marx never made that claim. > > You can't get to heaven in a rocking chair, and that's the essential > hope of unMarxian socialists who speak of capitalism destroying itself. > > If you don't hit it, it won't fall.
Well, it does mean something if a non-Marxist (and non-Leftist) suggests that capitalism is self-destructive. In any event, Marx's theory does suggest that capitalism is self-destructive. What he didn't say was that capitalism would automatically be replaced by socialism or communism. He said that capitalism created its own grave-diggers (the working class). What he didn't say was that capitalism will automatically be buried. Instead, just as a cocaine addict can be self-destructive without being destroyed, capitalism can recover (after suffering and struggle). Roubini's sense of the phrase "self-destructive" fits with this conception. BTW, this business of "non-Marxian" reminds me of the old phrase "unAmerican" (which has recently been revived by Teabaggers). It suggests nothing but a dogmatic mindset. We can't learn from other thinkers? or from experience? -- Jim Devine / "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." -- Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
