Re: Tautology: To Doug

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Brown wrote:

> Doug, by now, I have heard you say the equivalent of "Communists
> endlessly repeat slogans" or "Communists endlessly repeat that
> capitalism is doomed" , as Carrol phrases it,  quite often.  What I
> wonder is do you  think that capitalism will collapse or not ? or
> are you  uncertain ?

I don't think capitalism will collapse, though anything is possible.
The more likely end to capitalism, if there ever is one, is through
political organization and expropriation of the expropriators. I
think there are a lot of people who are now using ecological crisis
as a substitute for underconsumption/overinvestment/realization
crisis theories of collapse.

It's not only communists who theorize collapse or something like it -
so did/do some classical economists, goldbugs, survivalists, and
evangelical Christians.

Doug