the following makes Sweezy sound as if he's dead. Last time I heard, he wasn't.
At 01:08 PM 07/03/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>***** Sweezy was also a proponent of an "underconsumption"
>interpretation of Marx, a new theory of imperialism rooted in "dependency"
>and the examination of Keynesian demand management as a life-valve for
>capitalism - ideas commonly associated with the Monthly Review, which
>Sweezy helped found in 1949 and which he edited for the rest of his career
>which was to be highly influential on the emerging "New Left". Sweezy saw
>these ideas as a way of modernising the Marxian theory of crisis and he
>set them forth both in his numerous writings in the Monthly Review and,
>perhaps most famously, in his highly influential Monopoly Capital (1966)
>written with Paul Baran.
>
><http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/sweezy.htm> *****
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
