In the rush to compose the reply, several typos slipped through. For example:
> I do not believe -- nor have I claimed at any point -- that the > productive forces can be neutral. Actually, they can be neutral. They are fairly neutral in some instances, as I indicate in my posting. But, in general, they are not neutral. > If my memory serves, the passages in Marx's Grundrisse and Capital > that Michael refers us to are full of references to the notion that, > at first, capitalist production took the production and labor > processes, the existing productive forces, *as they were*, as they had > developed in pre-capitalist conditions. Not "capitalist production took" but "capital took" or "the capitalists took." Etc. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
