Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Did Vladimir Lenin Predict The Banking Disaster Of 2008?

2010-11-27 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 11/26/2010 8:20:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, _pegdobb...@gmail.com_ (mailto:pegdobb...@gmail.com) writes: So am I to hope my children are less bamboozled by SW than we by SV? My son tells me Netflix is useful to him and has higher earnings(that's SV, right?) than USS

[Marxism-Thaxis] Marx on the proletariat as ruling class

2010-11-27 Thread Waistline2
What did Marx write on the prospect of political and economic transition between capitalist and communist society? Quote The question then arises: What transformation will the state undergo in communist society? In other words, what social functions will remain in existence there

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Did Vladimir Lenin Predict The Banking Disaster Of 2008?

2010-11-27 Thread CeJ
WL: The quality that has changed is the substance of modern finance capital that is outside of and evolves based on detachment from production of surplus value. ... Wealth today is a very super symbolic abstract thing not riveted to gold or any tangible. This is the change.

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Did Vladimir Lenin Predict The Banking Disaster Of 2008?

2010-11-27 Thread CeJ
About the only thing Time is good for now--reading online articles I can remember reading in my father's copy of Time back in the 70s. Looks a lot like QE2 to me. Now instead of pegging the dollar to some sort of imaginary value of gold, we have pegged the value of gold to the dollar (and the