[lbo-talk] Obama's sell-out of the public plan, cont'd

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jun 17 11:46:34 PDT 2009


On Jun 17, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Max Sawicky wrote:


> Tell me if I'm wrong, but the thrust of this is that centralisation of
> credit permits banditry and is potentially dangerous, but it is not
> quite
> central to periodic breakdowns and crises under capitalism. For
> that you
> need Keynes & Minsky.

They help a lot, for sure. It's just unfair to Marx to say that he thought money and finance were peripheral.

Doug



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