Re: Doug H on the real issues

[Jorn Andersen <ccc6639@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know what this "patho-" word means, but probably it's on the
"bad" side :-?

And if Trotsky in his late years had a streak of looking a little too
much to objective rather than subjective forces (in some of the
darkest years for Marxism), I think this should *not* be included in
what we have herited from Trotsky. So I agree with Doug pn this one.

Jorn


At 21:24 23-07-96 -0500,  Doug Henwood wrote:
>At 2:08 AM 7/24/96, Hugh Rodwell wrote:
>
>>        The Death Agony of Capitalism
>
>Capitalism is *not* in its death agony. Belief that it is seems to be one
>of the pathognomonic signs of Trotskyism: the terminal crisis is always
>just around the corner. As Marx said, comparing Sismondi and Ricardo
in the
>Grundrisse, those like Sismondi who always emphasize the barriers to
>capital understand its inner nature less well than those like Ricardo who
>emphasize the overcoming of barriers. The transformation of
capitalism will
>probably not occur through its spontaneous collapse; it has to be done
>politically.
>
>Doug
>


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Jorn Andersen

Internationale Socialister
Denmark



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