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2002-01-28 Thread Doug Henwood
Rakesh Bhandari wrote: That is, did the limit to accumulation become the shortage of easily exploitable labor? Overtime was reaching heights during the boom, it seems. Businesspeople constantly complain about the lack of qualified labor. I saw a press release just the other day from some

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: the profitrate recession

2002-01-15 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
I don't consider myself a social democrat, but I agree with Jim -- if I understand him correctly. SD is good for the capitalists. That does not make it the Valhalla for others. It is merely a social form that reduces conflict and thus improves efficiency. michael, social forms that

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: the profitrate recession

2002-01-15 Thread Doug Henwood
Michael Perelman wrote: I don't consider myself a social democrat, but I agree with Jim -- if I understand him correctly. SD is good for the capitalists. So why do they generally oppose social democracy? Don't they understand their own interests? And when are those contradictions of

Re: Re: the profitrate recession

2002-01-15 Thread William S. Lear
On Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at 14:15:22 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes: Michael Perelman wrote: I don't consider myself a social democrat, but I agree with Jim -- if I understand him correctly. SD is good for the capitalists. So why do they generally oppose social democracy? Don't they

the profitrate recession

2002-01-15 Thread Charles Brown
the profitrate recession by Rakesh Bhandari 15 January 2002 18:28 UTC michael, social forms that domesticate the class struggle are obviously to the advantage of the capitalist class. whether the capitalist class can afford to do so by allowing wages to increase to maintain or lessen

Re: the profitrate recession

2002-01-15 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
This is an argument against strawpeople. I'm still waiting to hear what type of working class demands the Rakesh-Fred,-Mattick's analysis ( that recession is caused by falling profits and investment) imply. Or is it that they consider all reform demands revisionist Marxism ? Grossmann