On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/23/15 10:04 AM, Robert Naiman wrote: > > Even if that is not "socialism," is it not still a good idea? > > Austerity is not a function of government policy. It is a function of > massive changes in the capitalist system that have been ongoing since > the early 70s. This is complete nonsense. Austerity is *entirely* a function of deliberate government policy - a particular type of right-wing government policy, that is entirely dependent on the outcome of elections and that has no direct connection to any "massive changes in the capitalist system". If Jeb! gets elected, he has promised to double down on his idiot brother's tax cuts. Whatever you may say about those tax cuts, they are the exact opposite of austerity. Expect a return to "deficits don't matter" rhetoric. The capitalist system does not depend one way or the other on either the continuation or the end of austerity. Austerity is just the means to an end. The "end" always remains the same, which is to keep the poor in their place, and the means are ever changing. -raghu.
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