On Apr 15, 2009, at 6:42 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
> "To believe that there is no way out of the present crisis for
> capitalism is an error." seems to be Amyrta Sen's attribution to
> Lenin (http://www.mail-archive.com/ekonomi-nasional@yahoogroups.com/msg09623.html
> ). Whether Lenin ever really said it I don't know, but it was common
> coin on the Marxist left for the last thirty years at least.
I never saw the Lenin quote. but I do remember the one attributed (also without source) to Trotsky: "There are no hopeless situations for the bourgeoisie."
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos