[OPE-L:2732] Accumulation theory

From: Alejandro Ramos (aramos@btl.net)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2000 - 17:34:40 EDT


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Re #2725:

>Are Leontiev's viterupative comments against Luxemburg completely
>politically motivated as (as Richard Day has shown) the Stalinists
>themselves had under the guidance of Varga adopted an underconsumptionist
>theory of crisis which was closer to Luxemburg's than Bukharin's
>disproportionality theory

or Hilferding's disproportionality theory or, perhaps, Lenin's
disproportionality theory (what do you think, Paul?) or, above all, Tugan's
disproportionality theory.

>Luxemburg's theory does have fatalist implications,
>though of course splendid rebel that she was, she did not herself accept
>them.

What does exactly "fatalist" mean? That capitalism automatically will
collapse? That capitalism "fatally" needs crises? That the crises in
capitalism are in some sense "lawful"?

Alejandro



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