[Marxism] Robert Fitch: only Marxism can explain the financial crisis

[Charles Brown <cdb1003@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Steve Palmer <spalmer999@xxxxxxxxx> 
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:09:50 -0800 (PST) 

> CB: And it is exploitation that 
> impoverishes and restricts the consumption
> of the masses. Workers are not paid
> enough to buy all that they make.
Workers never have been paid and never will be paid enough to buy that all that 
they make. That's because capitalists buy the rest of the stuff that the 
workers make.

There's a guy called Karl Marx who wrote a big book called Capital. In volume 
2, part 3 he shows how all this happens. He actually criticises your 'sound and 
"simple"(!) common-sense' argument there. If it was all that simple, he'd have 
been out shooting pool instead of poring over his books.

^^^^^^
CB; Then for some odd reason  this
guy Karl Marx sticks
that sound and simple common-sense
argument right in the text in
Volume III. Maybe he did it
one night while out playing
pool with the simple boys 



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