"Shane Mage" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ron wrote: >> Can and would you post your discussion on the counteracting and aggravating >> factors? > Marx outlines five such "counteracting causes": > raising the intensity of exploitation; > cheapening the elements of constant capital; > depressing wages below their value; > relative overpopulation; > foreign trade . > --cheapening the elements of constant capital. This seems to me to be the main peristent reason for keeping the rate of profit up. It involves continual advances in knowledge and the development of new technologies that reduce labor time for the production of commodities as well as improvements to use-values of those commodities. Since that is what causes economic growth, why does capitalism fail in that regard? Although crises occur under capitalism, does the elimination of capitalism remove all crises that aren't under human control? War and weather are obvious causes of crises. -- Ron
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