Steve Keen <s.keen@uws.edu.au> said, on 10/25/00: [4264] >There we differ Paul. I believe that I am working more fully within >Marx's framework than anyone who starts from the premise that labor is >the only source of value. Marx himself was not willing to do this, as I >show in my papers. ... >I find it sad that Marx's alleged followers aren't as willing as Marx >himself was to deeply examine the logic of those who inspired him. Steve, "Marx's alleged followers". That's an interesting formulation, taken from criminal legal practice. Just for my curiosity, have you struggled with Althusser who deals with Marx's relation to Hegel? Does such a person as Althusser, when moving out of the trial arena, become a simple Marxist (innocent) or a simple non-Marxist (guilty). ======================================== Alejandro Ramos <aramos@btl.net> said, on 10/24/00: [4270] >I take advantage of this post to ask something I have had in my head for >some time. I remember that, in that article, you review Lenin's book on >Sismondi. At that point, Lenin position regarding the "markets" issue was >practically the same as Tugan. Lenin's book on S. was from 1897. >Wasn't possible that, at that point, Lenin had already read the 1st >edition of Tugan's book (1894)? Didn't he cite it? Later on, you say that >in a text of 1899, it's clear that Lenin had read Tugan. Why? Why not >before this, in 1897? Alejandro, Yes, Lenin had read Tugan's 1894 book in 1897 because it is cited a few times, the most important being in the section VII on 'Crises' in his Sismondi book. There he defends Tugan against Ephrucy. When Lenin issued in 1908 a new edition of his 1897 work on Sismondi, he added footnoted criticisms of Tugan, but in the 1897 there are none. Rosdolsky, as you probably know, makes a case for a close connection between Tugan and Lenin theoretically (Lenin comes "uncomfortably close to Bulgakov's and Tugan's 'disproportionality theory' of crises", p. 479). You are correct about my wording. I do refer to Lenin reading Tugan in 1899. 1899 is the year of Lenin's first overall assessment of Tugan's book, and probably partly conditioned by his reading closely Tugan empirical work for the *Dev. of Cap. in Russia*. Perhaps Lenin was more influenced by Tugan in 1897 than I had thought. But I cannot defend that yet. Thanks for pointing to this issue. Paul Z.
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