[lbo-talk] recessions: better for right than left

[c b]

Well, recession might not arouse the working class to revolution, but
does it turn the practical bourgeoisie and mushroom upstarts ( like
the Tea Partiers ?)  into dialecticians ?

Charlie

The contradictions inherent in the movement of capitalist society
impress themselves upon the practical bourgeois most strikingly in the
changes of the periodic cycle, through which modern industry runs, and
whose crowning point is the universal crisis. That crisis is once
again approaching, although as yet but in its preliminary stage; and
by the universality of its theatre and the intensity of its action it
will drum dialectics even into the heads of the mushroom-upstarts of
the new, holy Prusso-German empire.

Karl Marx
London
January 24, 1873