Doug Henwood wrote:
> What is it with people on the left? So eager to put
30 > million people out of work — the modern
equivalent of
> the 1929–32 rise in unemployment — to make a
political > point!
>From Michael Heinrich's _Kritik der politischen
Ökonomie. Eine Einführung_:
"For the left, theories of collapse historically had an exculpatory function: regardless of how bad the current defeats were, the end of the opponent was certain in the final instance. The critique of theories of collapse is anything but a "capitulation before capitalism" (such is the title of a piece by Norbert Trenkle directed towards this critique), because the absence of this prophetic certainty does not make capitalism one bit better."
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