Is it ok to say "the fix is in" about spending cuts to US social programs? :)
On 2012-11-16, at 8:45 AM, c b wrote: > I don't think I've ever much used the term "reify, but it seems the > term needed to describe applying "fix" to "the economy." The phrase > empties both verb & object of meaning. An entity that can be "fixed" > has to be something with clear & unambiguous borders: a shirt, a > machine, perhaps a bone in a body, but not "an economy" or "a society" > or "the waters of the earth." "Waters of the earth" is much more > bounded than the economy. > > Carrol > > ^^^^^ > CB: Better to say a capitalist economy cannot be "fixed" in the sense > of ending the business cycle and never having depression or crises or > low growth or shrinkage of the GDP. There will always be crises with > capitalism > > Even more . There will always be mass unemployment, pauperism and > misery , including mass imprisonment, with capitalist relations of > production. This cannot be fixed , either. > > Of course, Julio knows all this. He's just wearing his social democrat > and professional hat. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
