[lbo-talk] capitalism and collapse

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Aug 11 18:58:18 PDT 2007


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



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