Rakesh, Give me a reference or two for dudley shapere. Thanks, Howard At 04:17 PM 11/13/01 -0800, you wrote: >i should read again tony smith's critique of colletti before noting that >colletti has had an important influence on me. > >first and foremost, colletti was important in resisting the emasculation of >marx's theory of value: his writings checked the tendency to decouple value and >money (last pages of Marxism and Hegel in which colletti so brilliantly notes >the structural similarity between marx's critique of hegel's phil of right and >marx's critique of the money form, as riccardo's work has reminded us), to >reduce the law of value to an equilibrium mechanism (theory of crash), to treat >value as a convenient fiction (bernstein essay); moreover, colletti was clear >that the sraffian attempt to save marx's value theory implied its destruction. >i do not think colletti was successful in saving marx's theory of value from >its misinterpretation and dilution but his were important salvoes in the >defense of marx's most important theoretical efforts. > > > i also find important colletti's attempt to separate marxism from putatively >radical critiques of reason or instrumental reason (such as it is embodied in >technology); so for example the critiques of vitalism in marxism and hegel and >marcuse in from rousseau to lenin seem to me to be important interventions >against the new left, though colletti suffered from a positivist conception of >science (yet i think he made a positive reference in the mid 70s or later to >such a post positivist philosopher as mary hesse; and one wonders what he would >have thought of a dudley shapere). > >colletti's reflections on the meanings of equality in rousseau's social >contract and marx's critique of the gotha programme are also very insightful, i >believe. > >rakesh > > >
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