One of the most sobering reads on our economic future... from our friends in Moscow...

[bprater]

http://links.org.au/node/517

[gojomo]

Marxist revivalists who are again predicting (or perhaps just rooting for) a collapse of world capitalism are not: (1) credible; (2) Hacker News; (3) "our friends".

[swombat → gojomo]

Mind you, there's plenty of non-marxist reasons to predict that the parts of the world economy will be royally fucked for the next few years.

[hugh → swombat]

Could be, and there are plenty of non-Marxist articles on this subject which we could be reading instead of this load of garbage.

Though personally I don't want to see economics articles unless they're narrowly focused on, say, startups or technology.

[pjackson]

I second gojomo.

It's certainly sobering, but it's sloppily done. There are some facts in there, but the synthesis and analysis aren't intelligent. It seems more like wishful thinking.

[fubar]

Please, this is hacker news not reddit, take the anti-capitalism somewhere else...

[hugh]

I read as far as "International Journal of Socialist Renewal".

[queensnake]

Dmitry Orlov's lessons for individuals from the Soviet collapse, http://www.badcyclopedia.com/what-if-us-collapses-soviet-col...

More at Dmitry Orlov's blog - http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/