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

[Ken Hanly <khanly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is this in contrast to non-trivial tautologies?
     Cheers, Ken Hanly

Carrol Cox wrote:

> 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