File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-01-08.181, message 34


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.



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