Re: what makes a theory 'social democratic'?

From: Paul Cockshott (wpc@DCS.GLA.AC.UK)
Date: Fri Dec 12 2003 - 07:11:28 EST 

 
 Only the falling rate and mass of profit theory makes sense of
protracted crises in which there must be a general devaluation of
capital, new political means have to be used to break labor (rather than
merely contain wage increases so that there is no wage-price inflation)
and the fraternity of capital breaks down into fraticidal competition.
This is not to say that any crisis is permanent; it is only to say that
protracted and deep crises are inevitable. To be sure, they can be
deferred through the geo-temporal displacements that Harvey describes,
but they can't *always* be solved even in theory by the simple
redistribution of capital or government deficit financing. 
  
 
What do you make of Keynes advocate of low interest rates and the
euthanasia of the rentier class in this context?

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