Jerry:
>Let socialists undertake both of the above tasks. I do think, though, just
>in terms of theoretical tasks that the task of further developing an
>understanding of capitalism remains a more urgent political task than the
>task of developing a "serious alternative" to "how the transition to a
>communist economy might be undertaken."
>
This may seem a naive question, but just what is the use of a further
understanding of capitalism?
What programatic political points are currently unspecifiable because
of a lack of understanding of capitalism?
I am not denying that such points may exist, I would just like an idea
of what you they are.
Paul Cockshott
wpc@cs.strath.ac.uk
http://www.cs.strath.ac.uk/CS/Biog/wpc/index.html