[lbo-talk] IT innovation and "the Markets"

[Gar Lipow]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Philip Pilkington
<pilkingtonphil at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
> Here's the big question: if - and I say IF - capitalism is genuinely failing
> today - and it might be, it REALLY might be - what the hell do we do?
>
> If "in the long run we're all dead" and if the long run is over then where
> do we go? I mean, economically speaking, Keynesianism probably won't work
> without something like WW2 - which was essentially a very large demand
> sponge - and that's just not happening...

What do means by "do"? We don't seem to have the means for a
successful revolution. I could outline "programs" ranging from green
social democrat to revolutionary socialist that would be improvements
over what we have today, and enable survival besides, but I don't know
how meaningful that is.