Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, has asserted that:
'The West has lost its monopoly over the globalisation process.' Have the liberal values of Western civilisation lost their power and influence. If so, what will emerge?
And also an attempt to provide contradictory values. The Russian ones seem regressive, a reaction only whereby political responsibility means little.
Maybe the real question is: Is capitalism out of control? A system based on such a delirious thing such as GIP not considering the activity of half of the population, a system unable to produce, even with the faster computers, equations to include small-scale transactions in its calculations of GIP, this kind of system have to be reformed. Once again, it's because of pure laziness capitalism system is so unreformed and, worth even, so unthought, since Great Depression. Just as if they founded then a system that works to avoid another Great Depression so it have to fit in a totally different landscape: globalization. Of course, capitalism is trembling.
Fred, I accept your basic idea that capitalism needs to be scientifically and academically looked at afresh. I personally do not find communist analysis of capitalism convincing and look foreward to seeing better examinations.
I certainly believe that capatalisms assessment of individuals and marginalised groups deeply suspect and (I must throw in) contribute to say psychiatric descriptions of normality-anyone for example who does not participate or appear not to participate in capitalism is unstable, that is not normal. Full participation creates normality. There are indeed a whole flurry of moral assumptions based on capitalism. (Rereading Locke on his construction of personality based on possession of material objects).
I'm not for Communism. But capitalism needs philosophy and auto-analisis and deep reforms. The nowadays problems happen because capitalism does not respect its own rules.
Set it up as a project, Fred. There is a lot of mileage in this although I suspect a lot of ideological communists will get involved.
Ronaldo, from my point of view, those who press a viewpoint without sufficient thought, who see Marx's views on society as writ in stone and reject capitalism entirely as cruel, wrong-headed and evil.
I don't think there are many of those left
We called them Tankies as in supporting tanks going into Prague in 1968
Nowadays marxists tend to be quite self critical
Marx is still crucial to understand contemporary capitalism, Financial Times and The Economist agree
Ronaldo, so do I. My point of course concerned the issue and nature of debate.
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