Re: Re: Re: The "unique" English peasantry.

["Ken Hanly" <khanly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is surely a non-sequitur. It is perfectly consistent that the rise of
capitalism be inevitable and yet capitalism contain internal inconsistencies
that make its demise or even the transition to socialism inevitable. Ceteris
paribus a fertile seed planted in the spring in suitable ground in
conditions conducive to growth will inevitably grow but this does not mean
that it will not just as inevitably die.

Cheers. Ken Hanly
----- Original Message -----
From: Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 3:16 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:4702] Re: Re: The "unique" English peasantry.


>
>
> Charles Brown wrote:
>
> > " "Capitalism was a force that could not
> > be denied. Its rise was inevitable at some point or other."
> >
> > ))))))))))))
> >
> > CB: Tres interesant. Is the fall of capitalism inevitable at some point
or other ?
>
> If this is true, socialism is doomed. The only basis for confidence in the
> possibility of socialism is the knowledge that capitalism, far from being
> a historical inevitability, was an aberration, a cancer, which was
internally
> self-destructive from the beginning. But if it was inevitable, then
theories
> about the end of history cannot be refuted and historical materialism
> is a silly daydream.
>
> CArrol
>