[lbo-talk] what government spending?

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Tue Oct 12 02:21:57 PDT 2010


SocialismorBarbarism (and let's honour the recently passed Claude Lefort) wrote

"*something* has to cover that collapse in the private share of GDP" - here in Britain, we have another idea:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3175128/Virtual-reality-high-street.html

and yes, I agree with your approach - public spending is a compensation for the failure of private accumulation. But to me that says that it is itself a bad thing, not a good thing, that society relies on the state to prop it up. The case for the abolition of capitalism, certainly, but that would also imply the abolition of the state.



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