[lbo-talk] capitalism needs...

[Asad Haider]

Surely we can agree it needs labor-power, one element in the class relation
that makes it capitalism, after all... and therefore reproduction of
labor-power and reproduction of the relation of exploitation (which would
get us at ideology).

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:54 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:


> you don't think it needs ideology? wow!
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> At 07:36 AM 10/13/2009, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> There have been a lot of sentences beginning "Capitalism needs..."
>> around here lately. As far as I can tell, the only transhistorical
>> thing you can say about capital's needs is profits. Aside from that,
>> the thing is very flexible. Strong state, weak state; regulation or
>> deregulation; slave labor or free labor; vertical integration or
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