[lbo-talk] Lenin quote

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Wed Apr 15 13:48:18 PDT 2009


At 01:36 PM 4/15/2009, Doug Henwood wrote:


>By the way, anyone know where this quote in the Laibach email comes
>from?

This is it's second recent appearance on lbotalk. It was quoted in an FT article posted last month:

<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f8e0b1be-0ddc-11de-8ea3-0000779fd2ac.html>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f8e0b1be-0ddc-11de-8ea3-0000779fd2ac.html

By Amartya Sen

Published: March 11 2009 02:00

Exactly 90 years ago, in March 1919, faced with another economic crisis, Vladimir Lenin discussed the dire straits of contemporary capitalism. He was, however, unwilling to write an epitaph: "To believe that there is no way out of the present crisis for capitalism is an error."

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