Doug Henwood wrote:
> JayHecht at aol.com wrote:
>
> >I hope this debate is going turn out to be a lot more interesting than the
> >"Capital Critique." Heterodox economists in the 1960s and early 1970s
> >thought they had found the "magic bullet" to destroy NC economics. Well they
> >did have the bullet, but I suppose they never had a large enough gun!
>
> And the NCs just forgot about the critique and went on their merry
> way, right? Does anyone remember that at all, aside from a few
> "heterodox" weirdos?
>
> Doug
Can a critique of the *ideas* of NC have any impact as long as the social practice that NC rationalizes remains strong and healthy?
And the critique itself be much more than verbal playing as long as it has no strong social movement to draw its substance from?
Carrol