[lbo-talk] Michael Heinrich on Capitalism and the State

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 3 12:24:18 PDT 2010


At 11:49 AM 9/3/2010, Eric Beck wrote:


>Wasn't that power gained at least in part through domestic slavery,
>Jim Crow, and the exporting of higher levels
>of exploitation?

Where are you starting the timeline? How do slavery and Keynesianism connect in time and space?


> > It's why capital hates Keynesian arrangements, and set out to bust them up
> > in the late 1970s.
>
>Those arrangements were under attack well before the 70s. Workers got
>tired of all bosses, union as well as corporate, not to mention
>fathers and husbands.

I don't really understand what you're saying here.


> > but the ruling class doesn't see it that way.
>
>I can't imagine why we should be concerned with the way "the" ruling
>class sees things.

So we can have an idea of what's going on in the world?



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