social democracats was a typo? Should be democrack-hats? On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Paul Cockshott < [email protected]> wrote:
> I think you are in danger of replicating the good old time religion of > your youth there Louis. > > > > There is a serious crisis in Western capitalism, but the mode of > production categorically has not yet reached its absolute limits. The > crisis in the West does not necessarily imply a general crisis of > capitalism world wide, though they do offer the opportunity - given a > concrete economic alternative - for socialist parties to potentially gain > power. The problem is that in general neither the ultra left nor the social > democracats have the conceptual framework to formulate such policies. > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Louis Proyect [[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 10:03 PM > To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition; Progressive Economics > Subject: [Pen-l] Capitalism and the ‘undeniable’ rise in living standards > > Two days ago I received an email from Ed Leahy, a Marxmail subscriber: > > I am a nascent Marxist and am now almost continually struggling against > the general Capitalist ideological current that seems to have been > internalized by pretty much everybody I know. I have found that the main > argument they make for Capitalism is the ‘undeniable’ rise in living > standards that has been engendered under a capitalist economy. I have > been finding this a hard point to interrogate, as my own narrative is > the same as theirs, i.e. the capitalist West has the highest standard of > living, newly capitalist China is now lifting itself out of poverty etc. > As a Marxist, how would you respond such a defense of Capitalism? > > my reply to Ed: > > http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/capitalism-and-the-undeniable-rise-in-living-standards/ > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401 > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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