Forever is a long time. Even the sun will eventually burn out. Do you mean for the rest of most of our lives ? I guess that's the equivalent of forever for us as mortal individuals.
I guess what I would say is why give the bourgeoisie the benefit of the word "forever", when some people are going to respect your opinion as an expert. Use that platform to put doubt in people's minds about the "permanence", really "longevity" of it all.
Charles
>>> Max Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> 01/30 4:56 PM >>>
>
> Max Sawicky, the incurable optimist and chicken little-basher, might note
that 4th quarter growth in the U.S. was 5.6% and inflation's reminiscent of
the 50s. I remember after the panic of 98, LTCM's near miss, and after the
stock market bounced back Doug said something like the crisis is over,
refered to '87 and jumped on the
cooler-heads-will-prevail/chicken-little-poo-pooing band wagon.>
For all I know, the U.S. economy could begin to
stagger along at 1.5% growth at any time, and
then continue indefinitely. Likewise for prolonged decay of every sort. If this makes me an incurable
optimist, then go ahead and invent your own definitions as you like.
The fundamental STABILITY of capitalism in the
U.S./Europe/Japan, regardless of whatever moral
atrocities can be attributed to it anywhere in the world,
is the real issue. At the risk of being called an optimist again, I will reiterate two simple points: a) nobody has
a clue as to whether this can go on forever or not; b) speculation about collapse is an evasion of the basic political question of what is to be done HERE, NOW.
Hence all this cackling about the Brazilian-led apocalypse is just so much chicken-feed.
> I said to keep an eye on Brazil.
zzzz--zzzzz--zzzzzz
> . . .
> One Left to Lie To" and Cockburn's - "The Joy of Sex." If they do tour
> maybe those of you who like to take potshots at the 2 from your keyboard
> will have the balls to confront them directly.
What a waste of time, as if we were all priests obliged to roam the country-side, correcting others for their assorted vaults.
mbs