From: Ian Wright (ian_paul_wright@HOTMAIL.COM)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 13:17:02 EST
Hello Ajit, >But don't you think that "across >countries and across time" those relations of >productions themselves will not be the same? I'm thinking abstractly, in terms of the wage-capital relation, and ignoring pretty much everything else. This feature is an essential and enduring property of capitalism, although I of course would not deny that there are plenty of other kinds of social relations that determine the full concrete reality of particular economies. The invariance across time refers to the last hundred years or so of advanced capitalist countries. Maybe your qualification relates to Jerry's objection that it is not possible to speak of the breakdown of a system when that system has shown itself to be adaptable. I think there is sometimes an abstraction mismatch when we speak of a capitalist system -- it depends on what is included under the heading. For example, if my car breaks down when I travel to work I can still get there if I walk. The whole system didn't break down, as I did get to work, but a part of the system did, or functioned poorly etc. -Ian. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
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