Re: >Carrol:

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Brown wrote:
>
> [Rakesh apparently wrote:
> But  Marx's wholly original tasks included:
>
> 1. to develop a general theory of transitions from one mode of
> production to another--the so called materialist theory of history
> which explains said transitions as a climax of an inevitable conflict
> between productive forces and the property relations of the society
> [clip]
 ^^^^^^^
>
> Rakesh, this post kind of undercuts your claim to understand Marx's theory and ideas more deeply than others here.  Marx's theory of the business cycle was not a particularly important expression of either 1), or 3) that you list above.  The business cycle is involved in 2) ,but is not its only aspect.

This reduction of historical materialism to a silly technological
determinism (merely replacing the xtian god with the god technology) is
probably why on the whole Rakesh is so uninteresting to read.

Carrol