During the 20th century, world wars, reformism, Stalinism and recently the credit boom successfully maintained capitalism by keeping the working class passive. But does the end of the credit boom mark the end of capitalism's survival strategies? Will the coming recession spark a new working class movement? Come and join the debate.
A talk by Hillel Ticktin - organised by Mute
Hillel Ticktin's reinterpretation of Marx's ideas enabled him to foresee the disintegration of Soviet Stalinism years before it occurred. Since then he has argued that capitalism itself is in a state of inexorable decline. During the 20th century, world wars, reformism, Stalinism and recently the credit boom successfully maintained capitalism by keeping the working class passive. But does the end of the credit boom mark the end of capitalism's survival strategies? Will the coming recession spark a new working class movement? Come and join the debate.
Saturday 29 November, 4pm
The Whitechapel Centre
85 Myrdle St
London, E1
Nearest tubes: Whitechapel & Aldgate East
For Ticktin's recent analysis of the crisis - in an editorial for the forthcoming issue of Critique (due out 1 December) - see:
http://www.metamute.org/en/content/notes_on_the_last_few_months For a variety of views on the crisis see:
http://sites.google.com/site/radicalperspectivesonthecrisis/ and Mute Vol 2 #6 - Living in a Bubble: Credit, Debt and Crisis
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