Re: M-TH: Re: Marx on GOLD -- Headwood's umbrage

1999-06-08 Thread Doug Henwood
Rob Schaap wrote: C'mon Hugh! You're reaching here: The book is boring, superficial and grotesquely pretentious. If it was a straight-forward petty-bourgeois radical attack on Wall Street it would hardly pass muster because it's such a drag to read, the forest is lost from sight as each new

Re: M-TH: Re: Marx on GOLD

1999-06-07 Thread Doug Henwood
Hugh Rodwell wrote: Doug does not at all follow Marx every inch of the way, as he holds no truck with the labour theory of value. Bullshit. I've never said any such thing. I've said I don't see the use of efforts like Shaikh Tonak's to translate bourgeois economic statistics into Marxian