Jim Devine wrote [offlist?]:
You wrote:
Does it further the discussion - or the cause - to blame what Meszaros calls
the personifications of capital, when the present crisis is at least
cyclical and, again according to Meszaros, it is by this juncture more
probably structural? Here is Meszaros's list of conditions pointing toward
structural crisis (Beyond Capital, p. 692), bearing in mind that this was
written at least fourteen years ago, a few years after the
implosion/collapse/destruction of the Soviet 'postcapitalist' system, which
may or may not have any bearing on its continuing relevance, further, that
to me astoundingly, no extensive appraisal of this 975-page work which
Daniel Singer described as 'magisterial' and Daniel Lebowitz and Hugo Chavez
recommend to all
it that Michael Lebowitz? (who also wrote a book titled BEYOND CAPITAL, BTW)
I apologize to Mike Lebowitz for mistakenly referring to him as Daniel
Lebowitz. I have read his Build it Now, where he discusses Chavez's
appreciation of Meszaros's Archimedian Point, having to do with the
necessity to realize the significance of focusing on the concept of
exchange of activities, determined by communal needs and
purposes - rather than on exchange of things, commodities - as the
fulcrum of fundamental change. I haven't yet read Lebowitz's Beyond
Capital.
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