Talk:Crisis theory

message: A crisis is any situation for which a person does not have adequate coping skills. Therefore, crisis is self-defined. What is a crisis for one person may not be a crisis for another person. Crises may range from seemingly minor situations, such as not being prepared for class, to major life changes, such as death or divorce. Crisis is environmentally based. What is now a crisis may not have been a crisis before or would not be a crisis in a different setting.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.99.140.118 (talk • contribs) 
"M:L" stands for...? — ク Eloc 貢 03:20, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of Crisis 

message: Probable merge candidate with Crisis (Marxian). 71.186.179.146 (talk) 18:11, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree, proposing.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 15:28, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

text: This article is written about the Marxian theory of econmomic crisis.  Whether an article about crisis theories could be written is an interesting question, but this isn't a start.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 23:13, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The merge tag leads to the talk page on the other article so please continue the discussion there or move it here. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 20:16, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: The article is written as if Marxist theory were correct; no mainstream economic views have been included.  (Some mainstream history of econmics views have been included, but that's not the same thing.) — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 15:32, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: What economic, social, and political crises did Europe experience in the early 17th century?
The article is focused on Communist's view of Capitalism and not on modern contemporary economic crisis (i.e. the crisis on Asia or current crisis on the US, etc.)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.182.30.26 (talk) 05:25, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  This article, as presented, is highly POV.  If it were titled something like "Marxist Theory of Economic Crisis" then it might be OK. Gigs (talk) 18:35, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old Untitled Thread 

message: Overall cleanup and update, reviewing the history I think I'm the single largest contributor to the article. The thread above apparently predates the current titling. Lycurgus (talk) 07:11, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Clarifying that I had no role in the move to the current subject. 72.228.150.44 (talk) 17:16, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  2009-09-08 

message: May be out of chrono order for that reason. Editor that performed the merge just stranded the talk page of the other article. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 04:29, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Also this has thrown the history/change log out of whack. I've made substantial contributions to the mainspace text but can't find them in the history so they must predate the merge. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 02:47, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  restore lost talk from the merge 

message: To be clear the text in the marxist.com is correct, it's the reference that is off. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 16:54, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quote from Capital III 

message: The following quote needs to be fixed: 
"Marxists, on the other hand, see economic crisis as part of the larger crisis of the social order they wish to supplant"
No, unless we are talking about utopian socialism, I don't see how in Marx's scientific socialist thought, a value is being placed on "supplanting" capitalism, thus implying that human beings are the force behind the demise of capitalist society. Marx simply showed the motion of capitalist development and its tendency to collapse and reform itself. Nowhere does he advocate the overthrowing of capitalism IN HIS ECONOMIC THOUGHT (i.e. all 4 volumes of das kapital). In fact, Marx strove to be very value free in his works. For example, in chapter 10 of capital volume I, he mentions how "force decides between" the "two equal rights" -- the right of capitalists to exploit labour power and the right of workers to preserve their labour power...Now, why would an individual, who belongs to a strain of thought that is commonly seen as advocating the overthrow of the capitalist system, seen here as affirming the "rights of capitalists" to exploit their workers labour power? Marxism is scientific because it does not take into account such value latent concepts and ideas, and instead, shows objectively, how the system is prone to collapse BY AND THROUGH ITSELF without the need of any outside force interfering.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.81.5.140 (talk) 04:19, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: cf. The Communist Manifesto. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 15:31, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  neutral pov? 

message: Many interwiki point to "economic crisis" which is not the same as "(Marxian) crisis theory". --Alex1011 (talk) 09:17, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwiki 

message: I can find nothing which uses "conjuncture" in that sense; the definition is a heighted form of coincidence.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 13:06, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  conjuncture 

message: Here's a topic that's well-worthy of discussion.  With Marxian crisis theory getting some respect from certain members of the business establishment, such as George Magnus, I wonder if center-left progressives could co-opt any of the ideas in a program of reforming capitalism to make it work better for the 99 percent?
Of particular interest is the "full employment profit squeeze."  If Chairwoman Jan Yellen were to keep monetary policy loose long enough to get a tight labor market and upward wage pressure, that might be a clever tool mainstream progressives could use for redistributing income from capital back toward labor.  That might also be the time for a more progressive post-2016 Congress and Presidency to swoop in with some pro-labor legislation to get private-sector union organizing going once again!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karlbonner1982 (talk • contribs) 01:50, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Using Marxian crisis theory to reform capitalism