Alejandro writes 6346: >What do you think, Jerry? > >Are you ready to choose the rather modern, advanced and fashionable >"Copernican" methods Gil offers us, or to loose being an old fashioned, >"cumbersome" Ptolemaic Marxist, interested in the way people spent their >labor-time (their life!) to get their living conditions? Hmm, this is a bit loaded, isn't it? First, as mentioned in a previous post, I never suggested that analytical marxism was akin to a Copernican revolution in Marxism--rather I posed the more specific question, couldn't it be considered a theoretical advance if we were able to establish all of Marx's valid results without reference to the theoretical construct of labor values? Second, of course, it is false to claim that only Marxists, "Ptolemaic" or otherwise, are "interested in the way people spend their labor-time...to get their living conditions." Gil
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