The ultimate reason for all real crises always remains the poverty and
restricted consumption of the masses as opposed to the drive of captialist
production to develop the productive forces as though only the absolute
consuming
power of society constituted their outer limit
(Capital
waistli...@aol.com 01/20/2009 6:32 AM
The ultimate reason for all real crises always remains the poverty and
restricted consumption of the masses as opposed to the drive of captialist
production to develop the productive forces as though only the absolute
consuming
power of society
In a message dated 1/20/2009 11:02:19 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
_charl...@cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us_ (mailto:charl...@cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us)
writes:
The ultimate reason for all real crises always remains the poverty and
restricted consumption of the masses as opposed to the drive of
In this quote, Marx is not talking
about revolutionary transformation
necessarily, but rather about the
regular crises within
capitalism still.
Such crises may be involved in a
revolutionary transformation as
a sort of trigger, but Marx is not
claiming that underconsumption is the ultimate
Every single regular crisis of capital, in particular, is the direct result
of the bourgeois property form. Allow me to emphasize regular as meaning
cyclical - not the revolutionary transformation (more accurately transition)
from one mode of production to anther.
Actually, regular
Apologies for the length of this, but I was challenged to produce some
quotes ...
--- On Tue, 1/20/09, Charles Brown _charl...@cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us_
(mailto:charl...@cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us) wrote:
You quoted the quote from Lenin. If you'd turned the page and read on, you
would have
M-TH: underconsumptionism
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