[lbo-talk] Austerity in the face of weakness

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 9 08:27:41 PDT 2010


CB: "As to capitalism, does the above mean that you think it is permanent ?"

[WS:] Not at all. I think it will collapse when the state power that created and supports it in its current form collapses, that power being the United States. But it may take a while.

Wojtek

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:18 AM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:


> [WS:] A belief that capitalism will collapse under its own
> contradictions, will be abolished by the masses fed up with those
> contradictions, or a combination thereof is no different, in my
> opinion, than the belief that "it is easier for a camel to go through
> the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
> Both are fictions providing consolation to grunts who believe in them.
>
> Wojtek
>
> ^^^^^
> CB: As to the camel, eye of the needle and rich man, the Roman Empire
> did eventually "collapse/get abolished", though hundreds of years
> after Jesus "said" that.
>
> As to capitalism, does the above mean that you think it is permanent ?
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