I'd like some titles that will familiarize me with the French socialists
and the ideas mocked by Marx in the following passage from the Grundrisse.
(I'm not an economic historian.) My specific questions are below.
On p. 248 of the Penguin edition, Marx mocks the foolishness of those
socialists
Someplace in Marx's works there is a passage in which he specifically
mocks the capitalist tendency to explain a phenomenon by explaining its
origins. Can anyone identify that passage for me? It may even be in Vol.
1 of *Capital*.
Carrol
I saw that Paul gave one possible example. There are many. Here is one
that I used in my book on Marx's Crises Theories
According to Torrens: In the first stone which the savage flings at the
wild animal he pursues, in the first stick that he seizes to strike down the
fruit which hangs above
Perhaps Carrol means the following footnote in Chapter 15,
the machinery chapter, of Capital I. Here Marx writes:
The English, who have a tendency to look upon the earliest
form of appearance of a thing as the cause of its existence, are in the
habit of attributing the long hours of work in
Dear pen-lers;
It is my understanding that some of Marx's pre-Kapital writings
contained discussion on relative wages, specifically wage as a portion of
productivity advances in capital -- NOT wages as either nominal (money) or
real (commodity purchases). Does anyone know where I could look
