Jim D: I think the reason why so many (including Doug Henwood and myself) have turned to Keynes to complement Marx's theories is that Marx never finished his theory. He had no finished theory of crises, for example. Two out of the three volumes of CAPITAL are totally unfinished, while as Mike Lebowitz argues, he never really got started on his planned book on wage labor (which would look at the system from labor's perspective among other things). ^^^^^^CB: Isn't it possible that Marx didn't finishhis theory of crises on purpose ? I'm thinkinghe didn't want those following his approach tospend too much time in developing reform programs and struggle to thedetriment of revolutionarystruggle. Not to mention hisposition was that capitalismcouldn't be reformed; that crises can't begotten rid of, no matter how goodthe crisis theory, no ? He finished Vol. Iand in the penultimate chapter mentionsthe expropriation of the expropriators.He lived for 13 years after 1867, plentyof time to finish a theory of crises.Perhaps this supports Carrol's ideathat Marx made only a critique.
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