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Written almost 40 years ago and still one of the best things I've ever read on the subject. Marx’s critique of political economy is a critique of the categories through which the bourgeoisie perceives the world. Marx’s method is of central importance in the struggle against reactionary politics. Marx himself noted that “no credit is due to me for discovering either the existence of classes in modern society or the struggle between them.”[1] The existence of class struggle was well known to bourgeois historians. They had merely to take into account the reality around them. What was distinctive about Marx was his method of analysis, which for the first time revealed that capitalist relations inevitably lead to the struggle between classes and that this struggle “necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat”.[2] 1. Marx’s method in Capital In Capital Marx shows that the social forms of bourgeois society obscure the real relations of. . . full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/capital-the-working-class-and-marxs-critique-of-political-economy/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
