BE Group Read. Regarding all the uses of the phrase "late capitalism" in BE

[Mike Weaver]

Maybe a reference to Sold on Suicide in GR is more appropriate - anyone 
who theorises capitalism hitting the wall will always find one more 
opportunist step it can take that hasn't been included in their 
reasoning so have to start over ... and over ...

On 13/12/2021 11:37, Mark Kohut wrote:
> Sam Haselby
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> The phrase "late capitalism" has been in use for over a century and there's
> never been less evidence during that time that it's near end times for
> capitalism.
>
> This is why I think its use in BE is ironic, is, like so much, a phrase he
> satirizes in this way, so to speak: It is always Late Capitalism. To quote
> his GR line analogously:
> " it has happened before but there is nothing to compare it to now". A way
> of constantly speaking of a patterned (in a way, he says) present.
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