--- Tahir Wood <twood at uwc.ac.za> wrote:
"if we wait until the final crisis is here
before we do something about it it will precisely NOT lead to a better form of society. It will only do so if we have pre-empted the whole thing by evolving a better way of living."
By "evolving" do you mean through democratic reform, or by making small group innovations under the radar?
BobW
> >>> <lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org> 11/27/07 8:22 AM
> >>>
> From: Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Marx on profits
>
> The way I read it is that there is a FROP. It leads
> to a crisis, just
> like Seth
> described. If the crisis is not too severe, capital
> can come back even
> stronger
> (possibly), but eventually a crisis will be so
> severe that we can move
> on to a
> better form of society.
>
>
> I think some people expect the crisis to appear only
> as rows of
> empirical data on a computer printout.
>
> The trouble is, that if we wait until the final
> crisis is here before
> we do something about it it will precisely NOT lead
> to a better form of
> society. It will only do so if we have pre-empted
> the whole thing by
> evolving a better way of living. But if we persist
> with "crisis? what
> crisis" right up until the very end, then it will
> just be rats and
> roaches and roving bands of armed survivors. That
> could be sooner than
> we think.
>
> Our empiricists don't get that because the
> imagination has been trained
> out of them.
>
> Tahir
>
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