[Marxism] Be ticked off - but get over it

[Aaron Aarons]

>Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:27:01 -0400
>From: "Sky Keyes-Vogt" <skeyesvogt at gmail.com>
>
>the capitalist media is amazing.... this editorial advises readers to get
>mad about the fed bailout... and then get over it:
>
>http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/22/markets/thebuzz/?postversion=2008092211
>
>best quote:
>
>"What makes capitalism work is borrowing and lending. The problem, without
>this bailout, would have been you would have condemned the economy to a
>period of halting growth at best," [Tom Higgins, chief economist with Payden
>& Rygel, a Los Angeles-based money management firm] added.

The problem for anti-capitalist revolutionaries is that too many people on the left also promulgate the ruling-class mantra that economic growth is, even in the overdeveloped capitalist countries, a good and even necessary thing, rather than the world-destroying cancer it is.

Quantitatively, there is more than enough production in the world to provide a materially decent life for everybody. The problems are qualitative: what is produced, how it is produced, and how it is allocated.

 - Aaron