Re: [Marxism] My employer asks: "Capitalism in crisis, how do we fix it?"

[Jim Farmelant <farmelantj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:39:41 -0500 Dan Russell <proletariandan@xxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> A request went out for papers at my school on the 'political future 
> of
> capitalism.' I'm pretty young but I don't imagine these questions 
> have been
> asked since the great depression, if ever. I plan to answer that 
> the
> political future of capitalism is only as strong as a movement 
> offering a
> viable alternative is weak, meaning that right now things look 
> pretty good.
> ________________________________________________


As I understand it, Immanuel Wallerstein thinks that
capitalism is in a terminal and may be gone within
thirty or forty years.  However, in his opinion it
is by no means a given that it will be replaced
by anything better.  In fact its replacement may
be a whole lot worse, especially if there is
no movement in place to press for an
egalitarian alternative to capitalism.

See:
http://hnn.us/articles/59481.html

Jim F. 
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