On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gar writes: ". . . still maybe there is something wrong with the whole idea > that capitalism necessarily suffers from falling profits." > > No No No > > Capitalists _think_ they are suffering when profits fall. And they work > hard > to transfer the suffering to the workers. But capitalism, the sysem of > social relations, suffers only from a proletarian revolution. Nothing else > hurts it as a system. > Quibbler!. Ignoring the meaning which every other responder understood to pounce on a particular phrasing. And I'm not even sure the phrasing was wrong. Do you really think that capitalism as set of social relations can't be stronger or weaker at a given moment? Capitalism cannot be less or more vulnerable to such a revolution? ( Admittedly "more vulnerable" means "still almost not vulnerable at all" at this particular moment.) You are coming dangerously close to asserting that capitalism is outside of history at every moment except its birth and death. > > Carrol > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Facebook: Gar Lipow Twitter: GarLipow Solving the Climate Crisis web page: SolvingTheClimateCrisis.com Grist Blog: http://grist.org/author/gar-lipow/ Online technical reference: http://www.nohairshirts.com
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