Paul B writes in 6555: > > >Just for a start ... i don't know what you've read, you could try >Lenin's 'On the so called Market question'... for an exposition >(CW Vol1) , an application of the reproduction schemas in a crushing >response to a schema constructed by a Narodnik who aimed at opposing >the tsar and proving this was to be done in a political and social >environment in which capitalism could not develop... the question >remained only one of the peasantry. But I think it's one thing to show that a clock can move its hands without the external force of outside markets; it's another thing to show that the clock comes to a grinding halt due to its own internal mechanisms. I don't think Lenin ever worked out a theory of the latter. Which of course is not to say that this is a good metaphor; after all, the capitalist system never simply winds down or settles down into stagnation or unemployment equilibrium. Rakesh
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