Not being able to see the page I can only roughly summarize from my reading 8 years ago of Albritton.
He speaks of three levels of "theory." Marx's Critique treats a totally abstract capitalism, or as Marx puts it in Vol. 3, an "ideal average capitalism." What Albritton calls Second Level Theory treats of particular epochs of capitalism -- e.g. British 19th-c liberal capitalism. The name for the study of the current economy is _History_. This is equivalent to Postone's comment tht "Marx wrote a Critique of Political Economy, not a critical political economy." I suppose that, roughly, one could say that Marx would have hooted at the idea of "Marxist Economics." Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
