Jerry, I'm not interested in non-issues, which you seem to be a champion of. I have never referred to this interpretation as "traditional", check my original mail. It is a label that Rakesh attributed to me off his hat. I did not say anything about it because I did not want to vitiate the issue to a non-issue about what is traditional or not. My original mail was in response to somebody (whose name I cannot recall right now) who in my opinion was coming from Marxist-Hegelian position. What Rakesh is or is not is not my problem. He is interested in continuing this debate, either to convince me that I'm wrong, which he has a very little chance of, or trying to clarify his own understanding of the issues involved by arguing against me. So we are carrying on. If you are interested, comment on the issues involved. One could claim oneself an Hegelian without knowing much of Hegel, so I don't give much credence to label-shable that people put on themselves. Cheers, ajit sinha ps. As far as authors I have taken on on this score, all you need to do is to read my articles in *Research in Political Economy* vol. 12, 1990, and vol. 15, 1996. 'The Cocept of Value in Marx: A Reinterpretation' 'A Critique of Part one of *Capital* vol. one: The Value Controvery Revisited' Gerald_A_Levy wrote: > Re Ajit's [5556]: > > I'm not sure *whom* you are really taking issue > with. I thought I knew when you referred in the > original [5553] to the 'traditional interpretation'. > Yet, in this post you seem to take issue with > Rakesh's perspective which you imply is 'Marxist- > Hegelian' and value-form theory (VFT). However, > Rakesh is not a Heglian by any stretch of the > imagination and he has indeed authored long > anti-Hegel(ian) posts on this list (he thinks that Marx's methodology has > more in common with > Aristotle than Marx.) And, VFT (which RB is > certainly not part of) can in no meaningful sense be > identified as 'traditional'. Consequently, I have a > basic, straight-forward and simple question which > I trust can be answered simply: what authors (and > writings?) have put forward the 'traditional > interpretation' that you are taking issue with? > > In solidarity, Jerry
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