[lbo-talk] Doug, on Salon

[Carrol Cox]

Japanese Feudalism was pretty stable. In fact most peasant societies are
stable. When they fail it is almost always from outside disruption. Even
when a ruling class becomes "decadent" (a tricky concept) it takes outside
intervention to bring the "system" down (and replace it with a more or less
identical 'system.'). I put _system_ in s care quotes because I think it
arguable that only capitalism is actually a "system" (held together by
internal relations) -- and hence subject to Hegelian principle.

Carrol

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On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 10:38:22 +1100
Bill Bartlett <william7 at aapt.net.au> wrote:


> 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.  

  
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