Greetings Economists, On Nov 13, 2006, at 3:06 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:
Yet, when capital faces a serious crisis, it does coalesce and behave as if there were an almost unified ruling class.
Doyle; Similarly the working class unites. Sometimes relatively small scale as Cuba, or much larger. Depending upon the conditions of the place and time. I would add that the unity process provides a kind of simplification absent otherwise. The anti-war protests at the beginning of the second Iraq war faded despite a certain degree of large scale support. In part because some sort of common understanding about the problem of transforming the U.S. couldn't be shared out. I think this indicates that a variety of currents must test the time and find growing resources. So that at the beginning it is not clear what works at all. What unites the right nor the left. The left must exert a force upon the right in such a way that expansion and growth can happen. People know by the times that an effort can be made. Right now the ruling class sees I think an opportunity to create a global system from the U.S. The neo-liberal thread worked well to suppress class opposition in the developed countries absent a threat from the Soviet Union and that united the right. The spent fuel of that period seems to feed a swing away from that right broad unity. Which invites counter currents. I would think since neo-liberalism is global the counter currents would tend to similar scale. Doyle
