[lbo-talk] Switching Sides

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Apr 28 06:56:51 PDT 2012


On Apr 28, 2012, at 8:44 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:


> I still believe that change is on the whole evil -- unless absolutely
> necessary. It is necessary for human survival to destroy capitalism. And
> this is relevant to the debate over austerity. Austerity is the NORMAL
> condition of capitalism, violated for a short time after WW2. Normal
> processes of change ("Progress") after 1970 returned capitalism to its
> normal state. How did that quote from Benjamin go, re stopping the train
> we're on?

I keep getting it mixed up with William F Buckley's mission statement for National Review: "It stands athwart history, yelling Stop."

Doug



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