Jerry Levy quoted everyone else and then wrote,
>To say that capitalism is "odd", by itself, is not a very meaningful
>statement. For Marx, the object was to discover the _logic_ of capitalism
>("the economic law of motion of modern society"), rather than mere
>oddities. It is easy enough to talk about "oddities" -- more difficult is
>developing a systematic analysis of why what appears only to be odd
>represents a necessary form of appearance of capital inherent in the
>value-form.
>
>While discussion of "oddities" is a (sometimes) amusing and interesting
>pastime, the task of political economy is to penetrate beyond the veil
>of both the "odd" and the "normal."
I agree entirely with Jerry's first paragraph and can only laugh at his
second. What ever could have "aroused" Jerry to such "seminal" thought?
Regards,
Tom Walker
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