[Marxism] Marxism] Why analyze the economic crisis

[S. Artesian]

If it's both, then we should be able to see a change in consumption 
relations, ratios PRIOR to the APPEARANCE, the MANIFESTATION of the crisis. 
We should be able to track and link that change in consumption relative to 
production, accumulation to the processes of capitalist contraction an 
expansion, prior to the actual contraction and expansion themselves.

And if it, underconsumption by the "masses," is the "first cut," then it has 
to be shown how this lack of consumption, rather than the internal exchange 
of capital between wage-labor and the already accumulated  "dead" labor 
specifically changes profitability; how it, underconsumption, prevents 
capitalism for reproducing itself as capital.

Since Charles is the advocate of the underconsumptionist position, it would 
seem to be his responsibility to provide us non-believers with some data 
regarding this.

And the explications of rates of relative surplus value tell us nothing 
about the ratios of consumption to reproduction.


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