SV: "closet Keynsians"

["Anders Püschel" <ahp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Anders Püschel

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Från: Michael Pugliese <debsian@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Till: marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Datum: den 3 februari 2000 01:45
Ämne: Re: "closet Keynsians"


>I've wondered how much the "welfare capitalist" socdem/liberal class
>compromise/ "implicit social contract" model of the postwar period till the
>early 70's, that the rise of the New Left was premissed upon (hey I'd like a
>return to Keynesianism too, absent a upsurge from the left, which after
>Seattle, I'm hopeful for, the opportunity is there, given the #'s and the
>anger out there...) gave the New Left, out of which all those postmodernist
>"leftoid" intellectuals emerged from, a false sense of the permanance of the
>prosperity of that "Golden Age"? Didn't some major bourgeois economists say
>that the business cycle had been overcome? And Nixon said, "We are all
>Keynesian's now!"
>                                  Michael Pugliese
>P.S. The math he uses is way above me but, Adam Przewski(sic.) at the Univ.
>of Chicago in his Cambridge Univ. Press book , "Capitalism and Social
>Democracy, " might be worth a look see, along with Erik Olin Wright piece in
>Socialist review, circa mid-1980's on various game theory type projections
>of various capitalist futures absent a left alternative model and movement.
>Wish those "analytical Marxists" weren't so abstruse. Make Kant, Hegel or
>Wiitgenstein, let alone Derrida look EZ.
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