Brenner on competition

[John K. Taber]

michael perelman wrote:
> 
> Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> > michael perelman wrote:
> >
> > >There is a natural tendency toward crises -- someone humously dated the
> > >beginning of the existing crisis at 5000 years ago.  Maybe I'm just fetishizing
> > words too much, but I don't like describing the normal condition of something as
> > a "crisis."
> 
> I largely agree with Doug.  My reference to 5000 years of crisis was meant to
> allude to the same point.
> 
> At the same time, a broader conception of crisis is also in order.  Maybe we need
> another term, but my understanding of capitalism is that the system more or less
> permanently stands on the verge of a crisis.  Sometimes we can steer the system
> away from the edge, but then we create other contradiction in the process.

If not crisis, how about one damned thing after another?