>>> "James Heartfield"
Somehow, I was always put off by the 'Kondratieff Cycles' - they seemed to me to be an argument that reality should subordinate itself to a theory, rather than a theory that captured real laws of social development - but maybe I was wrong. Does anyone understand the method behind the Kondratieff cycle?
^^^^ CB: Yes, the question I always have about Kondratieff cycles ( assuming they really exist) is that they are like the cycles of the earth going around the sun in that we can't do anything about them, so they don't have anything to do with political practice ( I'm not sure if this is what James is saying). Also, there never seems to be any explanation for them given, by Kondratieff or anybody else. They are an alleged empirical observation with no theory of them
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