[lbo-talk] Roubini: Marx was right

[Carrol Cox]

On 8/13/2011 12:32 PM, ken hanly wrote:
>      I somehow had the idea that this would happen only if the working class organized to make it happen. What is being destroyed is the social safety net and all the gains that social democracy achieved earlier.Would Marx consider the UK rioters part of the lumpenproletariat?   Cheers k hanly
>
Yes. Marx never claimed that capitalism would destryo itself. He did 
claim that it produced its own grave diggers, the working class. He did 
_not_, however, claim that the victory of that class is certain. He was 
no utopian Progressive, believing that onward and upward was built into 
the structure of history.

Carrol