On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, paul bullock wrote: > Dear Paul Z. > > Since this book is not available to my knowledge in English I can't help > you, nor would it appear that David can. It seems to me that if one can't > see the difference between Marx and Ricardo from reading them then no one is > going to be able to help! Agreed. > It is not reasonable to expect Marx to have tried > to answer or correct every view that didn't make the distinction clear. As > a politician he would be looking for support for scientific socialism and > Seiber was popularising his works... I have addressed this in my reply to David. I would hope that mere politics did not control Marx on such an important issue (or so it seems from hindsight). > perhaps you could do us all a favour > and show why Seiber was doing what you say, ie what the nature of the > 'closeness' he argued was between the two? Then you could show why he was > wrong. I working on it. My intervention here was to learn more about the parameters of the problem, to see if others have struggled and found a solution. Thanks, Paul Z. > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Zarembka <zarembka@acsu.buffalo.edu> > To: ope-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu <ope-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu> > Date: 12 December 2000 04:54 > Subject: [OPE-L:4680] Re: Re: David Yaffe on Ricardo and Marx > > > >Paul B. > > > >Thanks for your reaction. I am sympathetic to your statement of a big > >break between Ricardo and Marx. The problem is that Sieber's 1871 book > >which Marx read (you refer to the later 1885 edition after Marx had died) > >doesn't suggest such a big break. Marx praises the book in the 1873 > >German Afterword and in his 1881 notes on Wagner -- even noting the one > >can understand the difference between Ricardo and himself (Marx) from > >reading Sieber! Pretty dramatic, isn't it? I think we need to explain > >this dissonance, not ignore it or simply assert that Marx was not a > >Ricardian and move on. (I'm a bit surprised David Yaffe has not yet > >reacted as it was his intro that caused the issue to come to the fore) > > > >Paul Z. > > > >*********************************************************************** > >Paul Zarembka, editor, RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY at > >******************** http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka
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