mongiovg <mongiovg@stjohns.edu> said, on 01/31/02 [OPE-L:6473]: >Doesn't Marx, in his Afterward to the Second German Edition of Capital, >more or less endorse Sieber's view of the connection between Marx and >Ricardo? However slippery Marx's grasp of Russian may have been, he >understands Sieber to have posited a continuity between Marx and Ricardo, >and in referring to Sieber Marx's tone is unambiguously approving. I >have been criticized for overstating the affinity of Marx and Ricardo, >and I take the point. But surely it is a mistake to deny that there was a >substantial continuity esp. in light of Marx's own acknowledgment of it? >Gary Gary, I cannot gainsay our point. That is, while I am among those who defend the break between Ricardo and Marx, the Sieber episode is not consistent with it (David Smith's remark RE Marx on Wagner to read Sieber seems to me to reinforce the 1873 Afterword). On the other hand, there are alternative interpretations such as the one Jerry offered a year or more ago that Marx wanted to support someone who supported him (i.e., politics -- to which I objected at the time) or that Sieber's weaknesses paled next to his achievements as far as Marx was concerned (which is probably where I am for the time being). There is also the fact that Engels' Preface to the 4th Edition is perhaps clearer than Marx himself on Marx's achievement (see Engels on the history of chemistry as it relates to Marx) so that Marx may not have been fully aware of the extent of his own break from the classicals. I have wanted to get Sieber out in any Western language so that these problems can see the light of day, as well as helping more clearly understand the importance of Sieber for Russian marxism (both positive and negative effects). Paul ************************************************************************ Paul Zarembka, editor, RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY at ********************* http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka
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