Jim Devine said: > actually, I rewrote the entire entry on the "labor theory of value." I also rewrote the entries on unemployment, the state, recessions, depression, the rate of surplus-value, the organic composition of capital, and a couple of others. If people on pen-l contribute to the existing Wikipedia, it would probably receive a wider audience. > jim devine
I'm glad to hear this; I didn't think the existing entries were so bad. > Grant Lee (whose name fought on both sides of the US civil war) As I never tire of saying, my name is a snapshot of a historical dialectic in action: the brilliant but inevitably doomed Robert E. Lee, superseded by the methodical, melancholic slugger Ulysses S. Grant ;-) writes: > >Yes, as I asked last time this came up, what's wrong with including "leftist > political economy" in _the_ existing Wikipedia? Personally, I would like to > see the full range of views on a subject, rather than something notionally > leftist, but nevertheless one-sided. I would be doing this already, except > that I don't have a qualification in economics, or an adequate knowledege of > economic theory. > > >I see that Jim has already provide his alternative > http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine/notes/shortLaw-of-Value.html to > Wkipedia's > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_theory_of_value. > > >Sure, contributing does mean some frustration, negotiation and couching > contentious subjects in the right terms. But --- if you really think one of > their articles is a lost cause --- you can always start a rival one under a > different heading, e.g. the presently non-existent page > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx's_labour_theory_of_value. If the > reactionaries complain about duplication, they will then be forced to take > the issues on board ;-) < >
