[lbo-talk] Paul Craig Roberts

[bhandari at berkeley.edu]

Carl, did just skim the piece but was getting the idea that Roberts isn't
a Marxist critc of capitalism (commodity production for profit with
privately owned means production used by wage laborers [which by the way I
would define to include all kinds of labor arrangments]) but really ticked
off that US firms have exported so much productive capital abroad under
the pressure of financiers. It seems that all the elements are
there--melancholy over loss of national power, singling out of the
cosmopolitan financial fraction of the capitalist class, anger about
foreigners' stealing jobs.
Who exactly is promoting Roberts among the Left?
If Lou Dobbs ever mentions the name Karl Marx or if his name appears on
the Vdare site, will our work be done?
Or given your skepticism of Marx, are we supposed to understand that you
are criticizing Old Whiskers by showing that Roberts now positively
invokes him?

Rakesh