Re: Decaying Capitalist Economy

1997-12-10 Thread Shawgi A. Tell
Greetings, On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Dave Markland wrote: > >Shawgi wrote: > >> > The other major problem caused by the basic internal > >> >contradiction is that private ownership of the means of > >> >production determines that the motive behind production is the > >> >creation of maximum capi

Re: Decaying Capitalist Economy

1997-12-09 Thread Dave Markland
>Shawgi wrote: >> > The other major problem caused by the basic internal >> >contradiction is that private ownership of the means of >> >production determines that the motive behind production is the >> >creation of maximum capitalist profit. >> >> (snip) >> >> > As long as there is class

Re: Decaying Capitalist Economy

1997-12-09 Thread Shawgi A. Tell
Greetings, On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Dave Markland wrote: Shawgi wrote: > > The other major problem caused by the basic internal > >contradiction is that private ownership of the means of > >production determines that the motive behind production is the > >creation of maximum capitalist profit.

Re: Decaying Capitalist Economy

1997-12-08 Thread Dave Markland
> The other major problem caused by the basic internal >contradiction is that private ownership of the means of >production determines that the motive behind production is the >creation of maximum capitalist profit. (snip) > As long as there is class society, as >long as there is private

Re: Decaying Capitalist Economy

1997-12-08 Thread Louis Proyect
Shawgi Tell: > When Nikita Khrushchev became the General Secretary of the >Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the leader of the USSR in >the mid-1950s, he advocated that the economic problems of >socialism can be overcome through the "efficient use of the >productive forces" and proper "

Decaying Capitalist Economy

1997-12-08 Thread Shawgi A. Tell
Official political economy has great difficulty dealing with any of the problems of the capitalist economy. It has become the most obscurantist and mystified science, the most detached from the reality it is supposed to explain. The social means of production and production itself are held i