Re: Doug H on the real issues

[Robert Malecki <malecki@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>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."
>
Thanks Doug, I know liberals certainly can read and quote Marx. Its their
politics that stink!

By the way why don,t you make a leaflett of the above. Sounds like something
i could take to the next trade union meeting..

malecki




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