Re: (OPE-L) on money, capital, and the state

From: Paul Cockshott (clyder@GN.APC.ORG)
Date: Sun May 30 2004 - 15:56:55 EDT

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On Sunday 30 May 2004 11:58, Costas Lapavitsas wrote:
> Gerry,
>
> The state is surely not exogenous to 'capitalism'. But I take it that the
> capitalist mode of production is a structured whole in which the sphere of
> the economy is analytically prior to the state and politics. It is in that
> sense that I prefer endogenous (to the process of exchange) explanations of
> money's emergence. That does not preclude the state playing an important
> economic role in general.
>
> Costas

 I dont think that we should accept this, since it seems very similar to
the neo-classical idea of an economic sphere of equality independent
of politics. I think we have to see the effect of the state in the most
basic relations of capitalism. Knapp was right on this.

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