[lbo-talk] Zombie anti-imperialists vs the Empire

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Sep 8 09:22:20 PDT 2004


James Heartfield wrote:


>Most damningly, Patrick fails to understand that there can be no
>epoch of transition without a subject of transition. Without a
>revolutionary challenge to capitalism, all of its difficulties are
>only relative, and can be overcome.

Isn't that the whole point of crisis theory? As Antonio Callari said years ago at a meeting of the International Working Group on Value Theory, they use it as a substitute for politics. No one on the room ever responded to Callari's critique. Instead, they obsessed over yet another iteration of VT by Ted McGlone.

Doug



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