By the way, I've just posted a copy of the anonymous 1821 pamphlet, The Source and Remedy of the National Difficulties Deduced from Principles of Political Economy, to EconoSpeak. In my opinion, Marx's conceptual debt to the pamphlet vindicates Postone's reading of Capital. I've also included my introductory essay to the pamphlet in the post.
http://econospeak.blogspot.com/2009/02/source-and-remedy-of-national.html On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Charles Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 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. > > Perhaps this supports Carrol's idea > > that Marx made only a critique. > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Sandwichman _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
