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Re Paul Z's [OPE-L:2120]:
> Jerry, I don't get what you are trying to say, neither with regard the
> footnote nor with regard to any "moral". The footnote is not Marx's but an
> editor's.
The footnote indicates the source from Malthus that Marx is (apparently)
referring to. The next step would be to look up the Malthus citation,
don't you agree?
The "moral" that I was trying to suggest is that in the interests of
scholarship, one should examine the more scholarly collection of Marx's
writings (although not necessarily the _CW_; perhaps the best source, in
German, is MEGA).
> and my initial question would be unaffected by this editor's footnote.
> Actually, I am not so interested in Marx's opinion of Malthus as his
> opinion of bourgeois political economy and productive/unproductive labor.
But, I think the context of the quote indicates that he was really
referring to Smith's perspectives (this, also, is what the _CW_ note
suggests).
btw, an interesting source on the concept of productive labor in the
history of economic thought is:
-- Sydney M. Coontz _Productive Labour and Effective Demand_ (NY,
Augustus M. Kelley, 1966, with a short introduction by none other
than William J. Blake)
In solidarity, Jerry
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