The French are showing the way to make late capitalism livable.
Reduce the work week at the SAME pay.  The overproduction must
be confronted.  Depression/recession anyone?
wcm
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> El  8 Jun 97 a las 1:08, Bill Bartlett nos dice(n):
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> > Tresy Kilbourne wrote:
> >
> > >As for the "crisis of
> > >overproduction" etc., I assume you are talking about some other
> > >thread dealing with that tired Marxist cliche (one frankly, that I
> > >can't recall Chomsky ever employing, speaking of sticking to
> > >Chomsky-related topics). I thought Chomsky's challenge to the rest
> > >of us was to fashion a more just society,
> >
> > "Tired old marxist cliche"? Ouch!
> >
> > Nevertheless, economic reality is basic to that challenge to
> > "fashion a more just society" don't you think? I can't help thinking
> > therefor that the theory is crucial. If it is correct then a more
> > just society is not possible under capitalism, if you don't think it
> > is correct then give us logical argument, not just a snide remark.
> >
> > Bill Bartlett
> > Bracknell Tas.
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> I'm a socialist, a Marxist to be sure, and I know Noam Chomsky is
> not. This does not make me sneer at his ideas, nor disregard his
> "anarchist" (?) leanings.  One of the things I love in Chomsky is his
> compromise with truth and justice, no matter the odds, or ideas. I don't think
> he would be very pleased to know that people in this list retort to
> others speaking of "cliches" instead of posing logical arguments.
>
> Moreover, I would add that his writings on American involvement in Asia,
> Latin America, and, to be honest, the whole world outside American
> frontiers include (as a logical precondition if not explicitly, I cannot quote
> and expect not to be forced to by a "Chomskian Inquisition") the idea
> that American economy needs such forced outlets for overproduction
> within the country's boundaries.
>
> But I may be wrong. Were this the case, will someone show me that
> Noam Chomsky believes the "crisis of overproduction" a cliche, or
> something the like?  I suppose that he is no less serious scientists
> than the Victorians, who valued highly the work of Dr. Marx (cf.
> Eric Hobsbawm's "Dr. Marx and the Victorians").
>
> Regards to all.
> Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky
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