Is Capitalism collapsing?
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Wolfgang Streeck on why capitalism is collapsing and nothing is rising to replace it
http://www.alternet.org/economy/end-capitalism-and-end-our-world#.WGtXqkVMADE.facebook
Barring some external catastrophe the unfortunate fact is that capitalism is not going to collapse precisely because there is nothing yet on the horizon to replace it. I commented on the article referring to the SPGB's 1932 pamphlet
robbo203 wrote:Wolfgang Streeck on why capitalism is collapsing and nothing is rising to replace ithttp://www.alternet.org/economy/end-capitalism-and-end-our-world#.WGtXqkVMADE.facebookBarring some external catastrophe the unfortunate fact is that capitalism is not going to collapse precisely because there is nothing yet on the horizon to replace it. I commented on the article referring to the SPGB's 1932 pamphletrobbo203 wrote:Wolfgang Streeck is unfortunately mistaken, Capitalism is not collapsing nor is it ever likely to "collapse" in that sense save by the intervention of some external catastrophe such as an ecological breakdown of nuclear conflict. But there is no internal mechanism, such as the falling rate of profit, that will ensure capitalism's collapse. Capitalism has to be consciously and politically abolished, That is precisely why capitalism will continue for the time being – there is nothing rising at the moment to replace itPeople who make these dramatic claims about capitalism generally dont seem to understand what is meant by capitalism. A shorthand way of describing capitalism is a system of generalised wage labour and one in which production for the market with a view to profit prevails. There are different variants of capitalism from the laissez faire model right through to the state capitalism of the old Soviet Union, So often capitalism is mistaken for neoliberalism – as if eliminating neoliberalism will remove the problems that capitalism generates. It wont.Wolfgang Streeck ought to have read that classic landmark pamphlet published by the Socialist Party of Great Britain in 1932 – Why Capitalism will not collapse. Here is the link to it http://www.worldsocialism.org/…The economic outlook back then appeared even worse than it is today. The SPGB warned those who said that capitalism would imminently collapse that their claim was groundless. History has vindicated this positionSPGB 1932 wrote:The Socialist Party of Great Britain answers those questions in this small pamphlet. The answer is worth the consideration of every working man or woman, as it concerns the great social problem—the problem of poverty. Our views on the crisis are set out here with the hope that workers who read them may be led on to study more seriously the principles of Socialism. One great obstacle has first to be overcome. The worker, seeing the inability of the experts to agree among themselves, may doubt his own capacity to understand the problem that other and seemingly wiser heads have found so baffling. Do not be put off by that idea. Working men and women, who make and tend the wonderful machinery of modern industry, and who carry out the intricate operations of trade and finance, have powers of thought that are well able to grasp the basic problems of politics and economics. We who address you are also workers, and we know that only the lack of desire and of confidence has hitherto prevented the mass of the workers from thinking these things out for themselves.The reader is asked to remember that this pamphlet is not merely the opinion of an individual—it is the view of the Socialist Party.[my bold]How did the SPGB get from such a good perspective in 1932, to the anti-democratic, anti-worker, pro-elite 'specialist' nonsense of 2017?
LBird wrote:How did the SPGB get from such a good perspective in 1932, to the anti-democratic, anti-worker, pro-elite 'specialist' nonsense of 2017?The simple answer to that is LBird's strawmen, aunt sallies and distortions. The SPGB's position has not changed
LBird wrote:SPGB 1932 wrote:The Socialist Party of Great Britain answers those questions in this small pamphlet. The answer is worth the consideration of every working man or woman, as it concerns the great social problem—the problem of poverty. Our views on the crisis are set out here with the hope that workers who read them may be led on to study more seriously the principles of Socialism. One great obstacle has first to be overcome. The worker, seeing the inability of the experts to agree among themselves, may doubt his own capacity to understand the problem that other and seemingly wiser heads have found so baffling. Do not be put off by that idea. Working men and women, who make and tend the wonderful machinery of modern industry, and who carry out the intricate operations of trade and finance, have powers of thought that are well able to grasp the basic problems of politics and economics. We who address you are also workers, and we know that only the lack of desire and of confidence has hitherto prevented the mass of the workers from thinking these things out for themselves.The reader is asked to remember that this pamphlet is not merely the opinion of an individual—it is the view of the Socialist Party.[my bold]How did the SPGB get from such a good perspective in 1932, to the anti-democratic, anti-worker, pro-elite 'specialist' nonsense of 2017?
L Bird likes to open his mouth without checking the facts or the evidences, that is call a liar. The stand of the Socialist Party has been the same all the time.
So, neither of you can read your own party's publications?No wonder you can't understand what the issues are.Heads back in sand, eh?
SPGB, 1932, wrote:The choice is before you; only knowledge, desire and self-confidence are needed to realise the free society of the future. Place not your trust in others, but be assured that the work there is to do must be done by yourselves.That was the SPGB, in 1932."Place your trust in experts, and be assured that the work there is to do must be done by specialists"This is the SPGB, in 2017.
It comes to something when I can quote the earlier SPGB in support of my political positions, and the membership still refuse to read them, and merely heap insults on what I write.No wonder youse won't read Marx, or any of the other dozens of thinkers that I've referred to.
LBird wrote:How did the SPGB get from such a good perspective in 1932, to the anti-democratic, anti-worker, pro-elite 'specialist' nonsense of 2017?I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are saying?!
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http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1960s/1969/no-776-april-1969/marx-and-engels-and-collapse-capitalism Marx and Engels and the Collapse of capitalismhttp://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/pamphlets/why-capitalism-will-not-collapseWhy capitalism will not collapse
SPGB: Rosa Luxemburg and the collapse of capitalismhttp://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1960s/1969/no-773-january-1969/rosa-luxemburg-and-collapse-capitalism
Adam Buick: Anton Pannekoek and the Collapse of Capitalismhttps://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1934/collapse.htm
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