Charles Brown wrote:
>  Isn't it possible that Marx didn't finish his theory of crises on purpose ? 
> I'm thinking he didn't want those following  his approach to spend too much 
> time in developing reform programs and struggle to the detriment of 
> revolutionary struggle. Not to mention his  position was that capitalism 
> couldn't be reformed; that crises can't be gotten rid of, no matter how good 
> the crisis theory, no ? He finished Vol. I and in the penultimate chapter 
> mentions the expropriation of the expropriators. He lived for 13 years after 
> 1867, plenty of time to finish a theory of crises. <

anything is possible. We could psychoanalyze him find out. Or maybe it
was those horrible carbuncles.

But wasn't Marx sick a during those 17 years? or involved in politics
and/or journalism? Note that he was also something of a perfectionist
in his writing and didn't finish most of his books so that we read
unfinished books published only after his death.
-- 
Jim Devine / "Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing
in government and business."  -- Tom Robbins
_______________________________________________
pen-l mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l

Reply via email to