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I disagree. I have rarely found different of editions of Capital to
change an understanding of Marx. Even the Vintage re-translation versus
the standard translation did not in the final analysis make much
difference, except the newly published material on formal and real
subsumption of labor to capital. This case is another instance: it
doesn't make a difference whether that editor's footnote on Malthus is
there or not -- even Jerry doesn't think it makes a difference in the
reading of Marx's text.
Generally, we intellectuals tend to get too hung up on issues of textual
exigency, as far as I am concerned.
Thanks for the Coontz reference, Jerry.
Paul
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On 01/13/00 at 07:13 AM, Gerald Levy <glevy@pratt.edu> said:
>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).
...
>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).
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