On Jan 31, 2009, at 12:42 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
It's absolutely true that Marx produced a critique of political economy (crucially, that it suffers from commodity fetishism), but there's enough stuff in CAPITAL to give us the basis for developing an alternative political economics. Frankly, I think that Marx himself overstated the extent to which he was simply criticizing Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, _et al_.
I don't quite agree. Marx, I believe, used the term Critique (Kritik) in an entirely *Kantian* sense, going through the contradictions of political economy to clarify the rational kernel of its fundamental presuppositions as Kant did in his three critiques (of Judgment, Practical Reason, and Pure Reason). Just as Hegel erected the "Philosophical Sciences" on the underlying basis of the Kantian critiques, so Marx undertook the (never-to-be-completed) construction of a new Economic Science on the basis of his accomplished critique.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures." Herakleitos of Ephesos
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