-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Doug Henwood Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 9:54 AM To: Progressive Economists Network Subject: Re: [Pen-l] The political earthquake in Greece
On Jan 30, 2015, at 10:50 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > "Marxists have no crystal ball." (And labels do not constitute an argument.) > Both Keynes & Mao lived in a rather different world than the world we > inhabit now. > > If solutions exist, they will emerge from collective thought within > collective struggles. Probably the most promising current spark is to be > found in Black Lives Matter. The present discussion is purely academic, not > political. If Lenin had followed your advice, there never would have been a Russian revolution. You never know, dude. Greece, the weak link in the eurozone, just elected a radical government that aims to challenge creditor power. The new finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, said on my radio show last November that Greece should be prepared to "blow things up." Yeah, just academic. ------------ One can only hope the Greeks pull it off. But if I understand your response to Charlie, you claim that the real policy of Keynes were never either adopted or even understood. And that was at a time when capitalist relations were confined for the most part to western Europe & the U.S. Now the populations of China, India, Russia, Eastern Europe and Latin America have been incorporated into the Reserve Army of Labor. Perhaps a single nation, even a small single nation, can adopt the policy you recommend. I hope that is true. The Russian Revolution was a complete surprise to Lenin among many others, so I'm not sure what you mean by your reference to him. The problem with the metaphor of the "weak link" is that it depends on the metaphor of the chain: Even if the Greeks succeed, how will that make a difference elsewhere? Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
