Re: [Pen-l] The New Republik

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Max Sawicky wrote:
> Not the usual first paragraph in a New Republic article:
>
> One of the most important lessons of Karl Marx's Capital is that
> capitalism is not a self-regulating mechanism (with which the
> government interferes at its own peril), but a set of
> government-enforced social relations that structure the production and
> distribution of wealth. These relationships--depicted in Economics 101
> textbooks as "natural" rather than "man-made"--are largely invisible
> except in times of economic crisis, when they can become key factors
> in shaping the government's response.
>
> http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f3a9b9ea-9cf4-4c53-af89-a88ee420a744

Well, it was written by John Judis who was some kind of 60s radical, 
even a Maoist, as I understand it.
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