On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem with the catastrophists isn't that they are wrong about
> immiseration leading to revolution. It's that they think you can draw
> a straight, consistent, ahistoric line between "objective" economic
> conditions and "subjective" revolutionary transformation. As if
> history is ruled by necessity and progress. Most counterarguments,
> however, do nothing but reverse the polarity, thinking that high
> levels of prosperity and equality are the requisites for socialism. As
> far as I know, neither side can predict the future, but both seem to
> insist that the "objective" is determinative.
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