Tom,
Thanks for the criticisms, I am working on those topics, on and off (I am not a
rich Marxist academic). But each of the replies to what I wrote also contain
some straightforward mistakes. I haven’t got time right now to go into that,
unfortunately.
If I say I am pro-growth, this does not mean I am pro any kind of growth. I am
of course interested in the kind of economic growth that is productive and
beneficial for society. I don’t think there is much of a mystery about what
that kind of growth would involve.
I am not trying to skite, but I was thinking and researching about these things
30 years ago, and since that time there’s just been very little progress in
academia about the basic issues involved. Shane Mage would have been thinking
about these things about fifty-five years ago.
Nowadays I am not really interested anymore in the New Left Marxism, because
all they really have to say (with or without some figures) is, that the workers
are exploited, the profit rate is falling, and we need a revolution, blah blah.
My critique is quite different, but I am not going to discuss that here,
because I know exactly, and can predict accurately, how the discussion will go,
and I don’t want to go into that again. It’s a bit like Michael Perelman who
doesn’t want to go into discussion about “market socialism” on PEN-L. I don’t
in fact intend to write very much on PEN-L now or anywhere else for the moment.
J.
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