"If I remember correctly, someplace in _Capital_ there is a footnote (I believe by Engels) that defines "vulgar economists" and lists there functions, apologetics being the core. Things have not improved since then have they?
Carrol" not sure if this is what you're referring to but interesting and relevant anyway. This is the beginning section 3 of chapter 48 of volume three of capital. Engels says they are from a part of Marx's manuscripts: "Vulgar economy actually does no more than interpret, systematise and defend in doctrinaire fashion the conceptions of the agents of bourgeois production who are entrapped in bourgeois production relations. It should not astonish us, then, that vulgar economy feels particularly at home in the estranged outward appearances of economic relations in which these prima facie absurd and perfect contradictions appear and that these relations seem the more self-evident the more their internal relationships are concealed from it, although they are understandable to the popular mind. But all science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided." -- -Nathan Tankus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
