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Engels on ditches & capitalist crisis

In Uncategorized on October 25, 2019 by kmflett

Prime Minister Johnson said that if Britain had not left the EU by 31st October he would die in a ditch.

Johnson is serial liar but he may inadvertently have touched on an important feature of capitalist crisis.

Engels wrote in Anti Duhring (1877)

the headlong gallop of a perfect steeplechase of industry, commercial credit and speculation which finally after break neck leaps ends where it began- in the ditch of a crisis

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