> But the sense of the argument above is >plain: dare to suggest that even a portion of Marx's argument is logically >suspect, and you are engaged in the sort of thinking that leads to the >Holocaust. >Gil Skillman Gil, I just don't get what you are saying. Have you never met anyone who finds Marx's value theoretic critique of political economy, as a systematization of the everyday ideas of agents caught in bourgeois economy, the most powerful weapon ever created to do battle with the representatives of a decaying bourgeois order? You obviously think the whole of Marx's value theory is suspect. I react because you are trying to take away on manifestly spurious grounds the conceptual arsenal needed to rebel against and understand critically bourgeois society--e.g., that since merchants' profit and banking interest are primarily derived out of the surplus value produced in the circuit of industrial capital in which the working class is directly exploited, it is impossible to follow the Nazi claim that there is fundamental distinction between predatory (Jewish) and productive (Aryan) capital. I consider you, Ajit and Steve class enemies just as you all openly and proudly think of yourselves as freeing socialism from its ridiculous charlatans and fundamentalist Marxist popes. Rakesh
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