Re: [OPE] Confiscation of American Prosperity???? Chapter 1

I thought that you were asking for this kind of policy recommendation.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 08:52:47AM +0100, Paul Cockshott wrote:
> This strikes me as the economism that Kautsky and Lenin criticised a hundred years ago, understandable perhaps in a country that has never had even a social democratic movement: but not enough.
> ?So long as socialist production is not kept consciously in view as its object, so long as the efforts of the
> militant proletariat do not extend beyond the framework of the existing method of production, the class-
> struggle seems to move forever in a circle. For the oppressive tendencies of the capitalist method of
> production are not done away with; at most they are only checked.? (Karl Kautsky)
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> From: ope-bounces@lists.csuchico.edu [ope-bounces@lists.csuchico.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Perelman [michael@ecst.csuchico.edu]
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> I agree with what the business leaders see as their greatest policy threat
> -- empower unions (& hopefully the union base instead of the union bosses).
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 09:55:45PM +0100, Paul Cockshott wrote:
> > Sorry I did not ask clearly enough.
> > I am not saying what day to day organisational issues, but what would you say should be done by a left wing government with the necessary determination. If one can say this, then one can be more concretely critical of existing policies and put forward an alternative to mobilise people.
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