From: Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Fri May 13 2005 - 03:48:23 EDT
> >Marx >Andrew Collier >Format: Paperback >Pub. Date: November 2004 I have now read it. A very nice reading of the Paris Manuscripts as they are relevant today. An approach to the the labor theory of value that I think is in the spirit of Marx. Fine use of Marx's theory of primitive accumulation to critique Nozick (though more could have said more about the importance of state debt, slavery and colonialism in the amassing of the capital and the creation of the world market on which the rise of industrial capital depended--John Hobson's Eastern Origins of Western Civilization is very good here), and the discussion of political philosophy I think the strongest part of the book. Good asides on the limits of Keynesian social democracy. Excellent guess as to why Marx neglected the power of nationalist thought. Superior summary (philosophically tight, rigorously argued) of Marx's critique of Comrade Weston. I would have liked less Plekhanov and more Lukacs though! Collier's sympathies remain with Althusser. A very thoughtful book written in a clear and rigorous style. Rakesh
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