Shane Mage writes:
> On Apr 28, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Patrick Bond wrote:
>
>> Marvin Gandall wrote:
>>> Also not my impression that the crisis came as a "great surprise"
>>> to Henwood
>>> and others on the left.
>> Comrade Marvin, have you not been following the debate within
>> Socialist
>> Register family the past few years? One position is based a sense of
>> capitalist vulnerability to internal contradictions of accumulation;
>> the other is to assert that since the class struggle is at an ebb,
>> capitalism is powerful.
>
>
> This is a "debate?" The truth of *both* positions is strikingly clear.
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My thought also. You've had many, many historical situations in which
capitalism's exploded contradictions have made the system vulnerable, but
where the corresponding rise in class struggle, including the growth and
development of revolutionary organizations, has not been adequate to result
in its overthrow. How else to understand the biggest convulsion, the Great
Depression?