Mark, I haven't attributed anything to Marx in the passage you cite.
In fact, I am a marxist and find it hard to fault Marx with his analysis
of a century and a half ago. Times have changed, and many of Marx's
followers have a hard time adjusting the fundamentals to be in line with
the newer conditions.
I might add, that what attracted me to marxism in the first place, was
Marx's ability to explain what alienated human-kind from its
environment, and made capitalist society so unhappy a place to be.
Marx was in a way a 'Green', way ahead of his time.
I have overstated the case against the labor theory of value, simply
because it does have severe limitations as a useful tool in the new
world of capitalist destruction. Most marxists still think, though,
that the labor theory of value is the ONLY tool of evaluation of
economic activity that is valid.
It severely detracts from marxists having the ability to explain 'class
struggle' to others, if they are so devoid of understanding the
limitations of 'commodity value' economics. They might even
stumble over to LBO-talk or PEN, and never be seen or heard from again.
We simply have to be hard on the firm reality, that what doesn't value,
is in fact the real value.
Tony
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I had wrote-
We have the large accumulation of anti-value of medicine (AIDS and new
explosion of infectious disease of many other new types) now beginning
to tarnish the supposed value created by hundreds of trillions of
dollars of expenditure on ATB product. � � And yet, no marxist or
capitalist economics even begins to calculate the true balance sheet,
Mark replies-
<There is something wilful about the way you misattribute to Marx
thoughts and definitions he never entertained. As for the idea that:
������marxists have lagged totally behind in the
understanding of the commodity of public relations and commercial
production.
you might try reading (just for starters) Herbert Marcuse:
One-Dimensional Man, which was published at least 40 years ago.>
Mark
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