Re: K vs. M

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

ken hanly wrote:

> Surely Keynes is a hopeless Idealist. He talks of people changing their
> motivations,getting rid of certain motivational features of capitalism such
> as the love of money. changing moral values and ideas,  not changing the
> relations of production that is getting rid of the underlying foundations
> for those values by overthrowing the capitalist system. He is a preacher not
> a revolutionary.

How can you get people to change the relations of production without
changing their ideas about them? In the capitalist society I live in
- and in this respect I doubt that Canada is all too profoundly
different - people accept existing relations and motivations as
entirely normal, "natural" even. You're not going to get anywhere if
you can't change that.

Doug