Re: Re: Re: Re: [Fwd: Position in the World-System andNationalEmissions of] (fwd)

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Doug Henwood wrote:

> M A Jones wrote:
>
> >But capitalism will collapse anyway.
>
> Right. Where have I heard that one before?

Actually the prediction was made by many old guys millenia ago
before capitalism was ever heard of. You know, the old stuff about
the rise and fall of this or that. ONe doesn't have to be even remotely
a marxist to know this. Now *dating* it -- that's something else.

And of course it is also another quesion whether the collapse will
be followed by socialism or barbarianism. But who can seriously
object to the abstract proposition that "Capitalism will collapse."
It seems a rather trivial tautology.

Carrol