Thanks, but there isn't a one-to-one connection between one's economics (Sismondi) and one's politics (petty-bourgeois Socialism).
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 4:39 AM, Michael Nuwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Devine wrote: > > > > > I don't know what your perspective on capitalism is, but I see the > > Marxian one (combined with some Keynesianism) as superior to the > > neoclassical and neo-Ricardian (Sraffian) ones. > > > > John appears to be a follower of Sismondi. > > > http://www.vcn.bc.ca/~vertegaa/ > > Marx often referred to Sismondi in a favorable light, but, in the end, he > and Engels described Sismondi as the leader of "petty-bourgeois Socialism." > > Quote: > This school of Socialism dissected with great acuteness the contradictions > in the conditions of modern production. It laid bare the hypocritical > apologies of economists. It proved, incontrovertibly, the disastrous effects > of machinery and division of labour; the concentration of capital and land > in a few hands; overproduction and crises; it pointed out the inevitable > ruin of the petty bourgeois and peasant, the misery of the proletariat, the > anarchy in production, the crying inequalities in the distribution of > wealth, the industrial war of extermination between nations, the dissolution > of old moral bonds, of the old family relations, of the old nationalities. > > In its positive aims, however, this form of Socialism aspires either to > restoring the old means of production and of exchange, and with them the old > property relations, and the old society, or to cramping the modern means of > production and of exchange within the framework of the old property > relations that have been, and were bound to be, exploded by those means. In > either case, it is both reactionary and Utopian. > > Its last words are: corporate guilds for manufacture; patriarchal relations > in agriculture. > > Source: Communist Manifesto (Chapter 3) > > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=Sismondi+&num=10&&ft=i&as_sitesearch=www.marxists.org%2Farchive%2Fmarx%2F > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
