(BTW, I never believed all those Marxists back in the 1970s and 1980s who thought that capitalism was going to end or that the Revolution was coming soon. A lot of those folks have stopped being Marxists, I guess because their predictions turned out to be wrong.)
OK, but how are they doing in the market now? Oops, sorry-- joking again. BTW, Doug, is there a market in Marxist futures?/m
At 3:31 PM -0800 12/10/04, Devine, James wrote:
Yoshie: > ... I doubt that many of today's remaining Marxists actually believe that "capitalism is just one quarter away from serious, even terminal, crisis." ...<
There are some sectarians who think that capitalism is going to end soon. Usually, they're isolated individuals.
The last time the market in futures on "faith in eternal capitalism" went down in a big way was almost like thirty years ago. It is said that generals are always preparing to fight the last war, but it looks like intellectuals are always preparing to fight the last intellectual war as well. -- Yoshie
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