[lbo-talk] Capital strike business

[Eubulides]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:29 AM, shag <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
> At 04:22 PM 10/9/2008, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
>> The capital strike is not for wages, but for working conditions.
>
> OK. so i read around about capital strikes: Kalecki, Dan Clawson, even Erik
> Olin Wright. The latter two take me back as I've not read them in years.
>
> Supposedly, a capital strike occurs when capital objects to certain
> government policies, and kinda does a "I'm going to hold my breath until you
> do what I want" routine. The example is usually Venezuela. Others nod at
> Kalecki's "The Political Economy of Full Employment." (I found the original
> text somewhere and now can no longer find it, but i found a secondary source
> *describing* what Kalecki said.)

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Should be in the archives, sometime Summer 1999. I swiped it and
forwarded it to lots of those teamster/turtle beings in Seattle in the
organizing run up to the street party.

Ian