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> On Feb 24, 2009, at 2:31 PM, Patrick Bond wrote:
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> The antidote to such nonsense was a 1929 book by Heinrich Grossmann.
>> Right, James?
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> And capitalism came back from 1929 stronger than ever, didn't it? Or have
> the last 80 years just been a perpetual displacement?
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My understanding of Marxist theory is that it is, indeed, a perpetual displacement. But like anything else, because we're talking in essentially psychological terms (and we could talk in any other terms) this dynamic should be unsustainable. Again, just like we talk about any other human science, any perpetual displacement is going to end in the people/society having to sort it's problems/contradictions out. Although I'm not an adherent to the "laws of history", this seems tangible.