I'll look at it, but it is certainly clear from the body of Marx's writings that "political economy" has no life separate and apart from the class conditions that gave rise to it-- the organization of capital.
Whatever Marx may have said favorably about the "political economy of the working class" to the contrary notwithstanding, everything in Capital, in the Theories of Surplus Value, in the Grundrisse, in the Critique.. identifies political economy as a construct, an instrument, the ideology of the bourgeoisie. Indeed the critique is not the abolition, just as Capital, which is not itself a "new" political economy, is not the abolition of political economy. That abolition if a practical task, a task of class struggle, of the overthrow of the social relations of production. That's what Capital is getting at. Hell, that's what Marx is getting at in everything he writes. There is no Marxist political economy, any more than there is Marxist philosophy, Lukacs, and/or the Frankfurt School to the contrary notwithstanding. ----- Original Message ----- From: "michael a. lebowitz" <[email protected]> To: "David Schanoes" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 3:13 PM Subject: [Marxism] political economy-- errata ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
