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In einer eMail vom 10.05.01 21:43:41 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit schreibt 
calbert at tiac.net:

> Economics is, at its core, simply the study of rational behavior 
>  chanelled towards "self-interest", and how this "aggregates" from the 
>  basic household model to the larger polity. As such it considers the 
>  role that such self interest (some call it greed) plays in the area of 
>  asset allocation.
You needn't to be a marxist to see that
1.) capitalism can only exist as a world economy - or it cannot exist
2.) it bases on everlasting growth - but nothing on this earth has no limits
3.) it's a completely a-historical view that there can be no other principles 
of economy than "self-interest". The homo oeconomicus is an invention of 
capitalism  -feudalism or other economic formations didn't know that. Is it 
an accident that theories of "self interest" occured in the beginning of 
early capitalism and shortly before the industrial revolution?
4.) If this capitalism is really so "wonderful" as you see it - why is there 
so much resistance, why did the worker's movement exist, why the Soviet Union 
(whatever you think about it - but that's another question)? Just for fun?
5.) I'm not speaking about the "human nature" - I don't know what this is 
like. Every ruling class in history argues with "human nature" which is 
always identical with their own "nature".  If I would live in another system, 
I would speak about this. But we're living now -  here. So we are speaking 
about capitalism and its contradictions.

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