[lbo-talk] Delong puts the smackdown on ol' Whiskers

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 6 09:38:10 PDT 2005



> ^^^^
> CB: I'm thinking more of radical political practice.
>

Well, taht rules out almost all legal work. Employment discrimination. Class action products libaility lawsuits. Criminal defense in ordinary cases. In fact in most political cases -- where what is at issue is bourgeois rights.


> Aren't trusts mostly capitalists robbing capitalists
> ?
>

Consumers pay higher prices when companies conspire to fix prices, divide up markets, acquire monopolies by unlawful means. What NCE teaches us is that what monopolies do is jack up prices and cut back production.


> ^^^
>
Hayekian analyis shows you the
> problesm to be overcome.
>
> ^^^^^^^^^
>
> CB: Perhaps _some_ of the problems to be overcome.

That's enough of a concessiuon, I'm glad to get that much from you!


> That theoretical analysis
> must be complemented with conclusions drawn from
> _practice_ , as with the
> Soviet Union.
>

Sure.


> Anti-trust analysis, how is that useful to the
> working class' winning the
> class struggle ?

Not much as far as I can see. That doesn't mean it's a bad thing or bad for workers, for that matter.


>
> The Soviet Marxist political economists did a lot of
> work on developing the
> theory of political economy of socialism.

Well, they did important work on linear programming and input-output analyses. The question is, did they use Marxist categories in this analysis, as opposed to being researchers from nominally Communist countries.

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