[Marxism] "On Joaquin Feldman debate...."

[Fred Feldman]

Yossi, you are not paying close enough attention to the totality of my
point.

I quoted the entire paragraph Joaquin wrote. I am entitled to ask  who is
telling him that this is the final FOR SURE crisis of capitalism, partly
because I have found it nowhere in this round except in the writings or
statements of people who oppose it, who tend to drag it across the trail in
debates with other views. On the other hand I know for a fact that many
people hold variants of the other positions he listed, all of which, right
or wrong, are more defensible than that one.

Joaquin's linking the other positions to this one seems unfair to me because
the position is simply wrong on such an elementary level, so utterly
insupportable in fact and theory. Placing it first and foremost, as he did,
tends to cast discredit the other views he cites and disagrees with, unless
there is in fact a significant body of Marxist or radical opinion that TODAY
-- not forty years ago and not in the post World War II era --  is insisting
that this is FOR SURE the FINAL crisis of capitalism. So as I said, "Show me
Bible!"

It is my sense that this position does not -- at least not yet -- have a
significant following today, and that it is mostly used to try to embarrass
people (such as Robert Brenner and the comrades who were exchanging views
with Joaquin) who hold one of the many, many  other positions that are not
the same as Joaquin's by identifying their debatable and possibly wrong
positions with one that is simply idiotic and outside the framework of
material reality.

I'm not going to reply to any more comments on this issue until Joaquin
responds.
Fred