On Aug 11, 2007, at 8:57 AM, James Heartfield wrote:
> On Patrick's/Cox's definition of crisis as the moment when a major
> intervention from outside the system is needed, I would have
> thought on the
> Marx-Lenin-Mattick definition, the system has been addicted to outside
> interventions to sustain accumulation for more than a century. The
> welfare-warfare state is just such an intervention.
If the system has been reaching outside for a century maybe the definition of inside is too restrictive.
Doug