[Marxism] Surplus Capital

["Jurriaan Bendien" <andromeda246@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe writes:But the question is: production of what? Your assumptions fail to
mention the underlying irrationality of production under a capitalist
economy, the result of which is always overproduction, inflation,
unemployment and recession.Reply:This is the kind of lousy leftist sloganism
I am not really interested in. Production of what? Don't you want all people
in the world to haveclean drinking water, enough to eat, a decent job,
decent housing, protection from disease, chance of an education, adequate
means of transport, and so on? If you think capitalism is irrational, and
partsof it are, you have to provide some alternatives. You have to
explainhow a more rational system could emerge, from a system that is
irrational. What I am trying to do is inquire into what "overproduction,
inflation, unemployment and recession" really mean nowadays. You just talk
slogansand empty phrases.J.


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