SAID MARX: THE CRISIS IS THE SOUL OF CAPITALISM

is a system where things command men. But it has a great ability to autoriformarsi. Interview with Peter Kammerer

The current crisis marks the relentless decline of capitalism?

"They certainly s'illudeva to tame the beast that is the capitalist system '

met by the sociologist Peter Kammerer, curator along with Enrico Donaggio

of Karl Marx, anthology of selected pages (Feltrinelli)

'But it has underestimated the vitality in a way frightening.

Of them believed that little would collapse. Here was the big mistake. "

Question: Where was right instead?

PETER Kammerer: In identifying the crisis as an essential step

of capitalism.

A crisis is to readjust the balance.

On this Marxists and liberals are d 'agreement:

the crisis is the way that capitalism has taken to adjust

its course.

Over the past hundred years has made miracles in this direction,

going forward to trial and error.

When you have accumulated mistakes truly global,

can get terrible moments COSLA is not more

adjustments.

Question: 2008 as 1929?

Kammerer: I do not know whether they are comparable. I assume by financial observers.

But we have cried "wolf" many many times ...

The problem is not just a cracked:

there are the ecological crisis, climate policy ...

Up in a healthy democratic sisterma you have a financial collapse,

try to solve it, but even today politics is in crisis.

Marx would see things together, not by sector:

We are a swirl in which the system variables are

greatly increased.

Question: Capitalism has been able to transform itself?

Kammerer has been so vital because he constantly changed registry.

I would say that it will again now.

Linvito that comes from thinking of Marx and the various crises in their

together and look at capitalism as a system in which the crisis

and the norm, not an 'exception. But he thought that people would rebel.

And this does not happen.

Question: Who will pay the consequences of this situation?

Kammerer: The losers ... Young people. Today they say 'cut funds for schools'

while any person would agree that it is the future of a company.

Close or disqualify schools for lack of funds is immoral and stupid.

S'investono especially if the money saved in police and security because

sbandano young ...

Question: The state falls in the market. What do you say Marx?

Kammerer: Here we do not want to Marx. is the old system: socialize

losses and privatize profits. But this is an 'other feature

of capitalism: people are living under blackmail within

a market which is a system of power.

This is the most grandiose of filoosofia because marxiana

makes us understand the functioning of a system in which things

command men.

Even the capitalists and government leaders, after all,

are under the blackmail of the market.

Question: Today there are forces for change capitalism?

Kammerer: I do not know.

But I am convinced that, once reformed, and not just stay healthy,

capitalism will again make the same mistakes.

We face a patient who keep alive with aggressive medical treatment ...