Re Andrew's [OPE-L:4973]: > The TSSI demolishes the claims that Marx's value > theory has been > PROVEN TO BE self-contradictory. > But refuting false proofs of internal inconsistency is NOT the > same thing as proving internal consistency. > To my knowledge, no proponent of the TSSI -- > especially not I -- > has EVER, EVER, EVER asserted that Marx's theory > is not > self-contradictory nor logically flawed. I would have to go back into TSSI posts to examine this question more. Was the intent of "The Scorecard", for instance, only to show that Marx's theory has not been proven to be self-contradictory? Rather, didn't you claim (of course, I am paraphrasing) that because the TSSI was able to "replicate" (I think that's the quote) Marx's quantitative results, this was something that would heavily weigh in its favor? And has the claim of the Copernican Marxists (e.g. in Alan's recent post) only been that they had refuted *other* interpretations? Rather, didn't TSS proponents make claims about the internal consistency of Marx re such topics as the transformation and the TRPF? Yet, for instance, the position taken by Ted and you re the transformation has involved a particular claim about what can cause prices of production to change in Marx's theory. This claim has now been *refuted* (by the "smoking gun" cited by Fred). This should lead us to ask questions about all other claims that you have made re that topic. > This is a LIE INVENTED AND PROPAGATED BY OUR OPPONENTS in order to > try to discredit us, to make us look like dogmatists. [It must have been invented by the evil twin!] > I think you should issue a public retraction. See above. In solidarity, Jerry
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