Here is an alternative title: Reform or Revolution Let me say this first: I consider myself a revolutionary, yet I believe that the debate between reformists and revolutionaries is meaningless for two reasons:
1) Without the threat of the revolutionaries to overthrow the system, the reformists have no hope to accomplish their goals; 2) Without the destabilizing demands of the reformists that disrupt the accumulation of capital, the revolutionaries have no hope to overthrow the system. By the way, Michael Yates is right in his objection to the celebrity economists. Capitalism is what we have and finance is at the heart of it (if you don't believe me just remember Hobson, Hilferding, Lenin, Luxemburg, Keynes, Minsky, Hudson and many more). Here are three chapter titles from Lenin' s "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism": II. The Banks and Their New Role III. Finance Capital and the Financial Oligarchy IV. The Export of Capital Is there anything new under the sun? Power to both the reformists and revolutionaries! Best, Sabri _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
