> I wonder whether it might not be taking it a bit too far to
> suggest that what he calls "rentier" capitalism could be a stable
> economic system?
Has there ever been such a thing as a 'stable economic system'?
If such a thing were possible, would it be a Good Thing?
One of the insights Marx got from Hegel, I'd say, is that there's no such thing as stability. Each system systematically destabilizes itself.