Date: 07 Jan 97 15:28:01 EST From: jonathan flanders <72763.2240-AT-CompuServe.COM> Subject: M-I: Korea and its significance >> French society passed from authoritarian conservatism of a traditional type to a modern, technocratic and more permissive capitalism -- "a necessary catharsis en route to a more sophisticated and subtle form of bourgeois rule." This is probably what is beginning to happen in Korea -- hardly a milieu for the classical Marxian denouement, <<Louis G Jon Flanders: I think you could argue that this is what was happening up until the early seventies. The post-war period was indeed a time of expansion and adjustment for capitalism. I just don't see such a possibility today. Everywhere you look capitalist governments, from Argentina to Zimbawe, are turning the screws on their working class as they jockey for competitive advantage in the world market. The space for cozy corporative relations between the trade unions and capitalist governments is shrinking rapidly. I guess we will be bashing each other over the head on this list for a while about this. I will stick with my "romanticism" about the working class. I think the facts back me up. --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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