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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




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