Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:58:32 -0800 From: djones-AT-uclink.berkeley.edu (rakesh bhandari) Subject: Re: M-TH: The Illusion of State Socialism Doug wrote: >But let's talk about politics for a moment. What *should* Marxists do >politically in the present environment? Oppose the AFL-CIO's organizing >initiatives? Well, wouldn't it better to spend one's youth fucking and drinking than engaging in reformist politics and sowing illusions? >Argue for more deregulation? This is a dangerous way to pose the problem as it seems to suggest (though you will doubtless accuse me here of false attribution) that regulation is inherently a good. Though no one seems to know about P Lapinsky, he warned against a revolution from above, and I think the warning may retain relevance in the crisis years ahead, and we will be unprepared if we make our criticism only of the unregulated free market or neoliberalism. >Take no positions and work out the transformation problem? There are no deeper attacks on Marx than those at the foundations of value theory; however, more pressing problems may remain the reconciliation of what seems to be Marx's model of crisis free accumulation in the reproduction schemes with his theory of crisis and breakdown and may now include the value-theoretic analysis of global capitalism (to which Carchedi has made a most important contribution). Cheers, Rakesh --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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