[OPE-L:3154] Re: Re: [Re: capitalist mode of production]

From: Paul Zarembka (zarembka@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU)
Date: Fri May 12 2000 - 12:37:27 EDT


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Jerry Levy <jerry_levy@usa.net> said, on 05/12/00 at 09:21 AM:

>Paul Z wrote in [OPE-L:3143]:

>> Capitalism is assumed to have completely occupied the space of
>> theoretical discussion.

>This assumption, though, becomes very problematic when we are at a level
>of abstraction in which foreign trade and the world market and crises are
>considered. Can we agree that *even if* this is the operating assumption
>of Marx in _Capital_, it is inadequate to address these more concrete
>subjects?

Yes, a misleading assumption for Marx to make. Dunayevskaya attempts a
favorable twist on the statement which I'm in the process of working up.

Paul Z.

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