raghu: " This is complete nonsense. Austerity is *entirely* a function of deliberate government policy - a particular type of right-wing government policy, that is entirely dependent on the outcome of elections and that has no direct connection to any "massive changes in the capitalist system".
------- Most of those "government policies" were little more than confirmations of changes already in motion through the operations of capital. Lou's post may be over-simplified, but raghu's is nearer to "complete nonsense." The last 40+ years have been characterized above all by the continuing expansion of the "reserve army of labor." And virtually _all_ political parties, worldwide, have cooperated with rather than instigated this process. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
