File spoon-archives/marxism.archive/marxism_1994/marxism_15-28Aug.94, message 90


Date: Sat, 20 Aug 1994 14:30:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Grossman <SGROSSMAN-AT-umassd.edu>
Subject: Re: science and technology


Date: Sat, 20 Aug 1994 03:08:43 +0700
From: djones-AT-uclink.berkeley.edu (donna jones)
Subject: science and technology

"Marx seems to have underestimated the resiliency of capitalism and its
ability to adapt to the changing conditions 

Capitalism? You're sending a message from a govt school (socialism) over a 
partly govt communications media (partly socialist) after, probably, driving 
over govt roads (socialism). The Federal Register, a list of Federal (only) 
economic regulations (fascism), is over 12K pages long. The US has not even 
been close to capitalism since around the late 19th century. Even the US 
Consstution is partly socialist (post office, roads) and fascist (power to 
regulate interstate commerce. I do note,however, that regardless of the 
long-term growth of govt, the shrinking capitalist part of the economy is 
blamed for all problems. The implication is that even 99% socialism/fascism is 
"really" capitalism! Well, if toothbrushes are privately owned and 
unregulated, then, by what passes for reasoning, there will never be 
socialism. 


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