Re: [Pen-l] Why you should worry about Frannie and Freddie

["Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Carrol Cox:
>> Only a political challenge, a revolutionary workers' movement, can represent any threat
>> to capitalism as such.

Sabri Oncu
> The above statement is a "belief," too. Capitalism may go down for
> many reasons. Whether it is going down or not now is another issue. We
> just don't know when and why capitalism will go down. All we know is
> that sooner or later it will, one day.

It's true that capitalism could "go down" if the Earth were destroyed
-- but it might exist on other planets, no?

Maybe it will fall "sooner or later," but that poses the question:
what will replace it? if there's a "revolutionary workers' movement,"
it would be replaced by (democratic) socialism. If not, it could be
replaced by some non-capitalist authoritarian system. For example, if
global warming leads to a social melt-down -- a Hobbesian war of each
against all -- we might see the imposition of a totally militaristic
society, complete with labor armies.
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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