From: clyder@GN.APC.ORG
Date: Thu Sep 29 2005 - 15:56:02 EDT
Quoting Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU>: > Just guessing: Too Scottish meaning taking individuated individuals > as the starting point, rather than the social relations of labour > which appear as buying and selling commodity relations between those > individuated individuals. Not understanding that cooperative social > labour is ontologically fundamental, the Scottish Enlightenment > thinker looks (fetishistically) for the source of value not in the > invisible relations of social labor but in the material > characteristics of the things themselves, e.g. its durable > vendibility. > ??? Just guessing. > That does look like just guessing, and I think, underestimates Smith's grasp of historical materialism. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
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