, Re Nicky's [6896]: >I feel 99% >confident that Tony, Chris, Geert, and Patrick Murray will agree with me if >I say that the similarities among perspectives are far more important than >the differences (which mainly come down to differences in emphasis). In >fact, my own synthesis attempt includes not only VFT theory but Riccardo >B's work (expecially on money in Marx's circuit). Although the >disagreements may be larger here (and I'm not yet certain how important >they are) I think that the most fruitful way forward theoretically is to >emphasise our agreement on two key points: 1) that the capital-labour >relation is more fundamental than the exchange relation, and from this 2) >money and capital must be theorised as a relationship with labour along two >interconnected dimensions (reflected in the circuit of capital): the >exchange (in markets) of labour power for wages and the subsumption of >living labour (in production) under the aspects of time. Differences >mainly concern how that is to be done. > >If any of the above mentioned names profoundly disagree with this statement >on similarity/difference, please correct me! Meantime, I'll join Jerry in >coffee and contemplation. > >comradely >Nicky I agree the similarities are more important than differences: I would mention a shared methodology of 'systematic dialectic', albeit the results pan out differently; and of course the stress on form means money plays a more central role in the theory than in any other marxist perspective. But Jerry is also right there are significant differences (e.g. on when and how to address labour). But I have a question for you, nicky: can you expand more on your point (1)? Surely in some sense exchange is absolutely fundamental. The presuppositions (later posits) of the bourgeois epoch are the dissociations: betweeen production and consumption; between production units; between labour and its conditions. All these are overcome by exchange; commodities are exchangeable goods; M-C-M is an exchagne sequence, etc. Obviously you know this, so I must have missed your point somehow. Best Chris 17 Bristol Road, Brighton, BN2 1AP, England
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