Lakshmi, I'd say you should save your energy for when you get to the chapter on the supposed "law" of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. As an orthodox Grossmannite, I'm sure you won't like it at all.
In fact, on most matters of potential controversy (such as Heinrich's anti-substantialist conception of abstract labor, or his monetary theory of value), I think a lot of Marxists will find it difficult to abandon previously cherished orthodoxies, despite the fact that Heinrich is a co-worker of the MEGA project and thus is able to support his Marx exegesis with actual quotations from Marx that most non-speakers of German have no access to. People will cling to orthodoxy even in the face of Marx quotations. That's fine; the book is aimed at first-time readers of Capital, not you, or Andrew Kliman, or anybody else who is likely to have an axe to grind with Heinrich's heterodox reading. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
