Reply #69: Apparently Williams was correct [View All]

[Tansy_Gold]

William Appleman Williams, that is, in "The Great Evasion."

Shit, now I wish I had a degree in economics so I could speak with some authority on this, but it just seems to me that Williams was right -- we should long ago have admitted the STUDY of Marx and marxism into the general overview of economics instead of anathematizing him in favor of wholesale (pun intended) acceptance of market/corporate capitalism. In terms of a consumer economy, the housing market does indeed appear to be primary, and any exploration of the labor basis of the economy stinks so vividly of marxism that we (they?) tend not even to consider it. It's already been discredited (pun intended, of course) and needs no further examination.

Or did I get that wrong, too?


Probably.


Tansy Gold