Re: Doug H on the real issues

[dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx (Doug Henwood)]

At 9:59 AM 7/24/96, Robert Malecki 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
>
>Doug actually believes all that crap in his liberal rag!

Yup, even the quote from Marx. You've heard of Marx, right, Malecki?

"Those economist who, like Ricardo, conceived production as
directlyidentical with the self-realization of capital - and hence were
heedless of barriers ton consumption or of the existing barriers of
circulation itself... - have therefore grasped the positive essence of
capital more correctly and deply than those who, like Sismondi, emphasized
the barriers of consumption.... The former its more universal tendency, the
latter its particular restrictedness."

Doug

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