From: Riccardo Bellofiore (bellofio@cisi.unito.it)
Date: Sat Oct 05 2002 - 05:37:46 EDT
At 22:36 -0400 4-10-2002, Fred B. Moseley wrote: > >I always thought that this quote meant something like "put up or shut >up". But I reread the translator's (Fowkes) footnote tonight, and he >says that this quote is a reference to Hegel, and specifically to the >Preface to Hegel's Philosophy of Right. According to Fowkes, Hegel >"uses the quote to illustrate his view that the task of philosophy is to >apprehend and comprehend WHAT IS, rather that what ought to be." >(emphasis added) of course, "a hypothetical total surplus-value proportional to the labor-time embodied in surplus goods" has nothing to do with "what ought to be". this characterization would apply to a Ricardian socialist, not to a Marxian (or to most of Marxians). in the specific instance, the idea you criticize is (or may be seen) as essential to understand what is. this is true: both if we accept or if we deny that this notion is actually the Marxian one, relevant to read Capital vol I. (and, as you know, I think that that definition in a very defined sense captures something invariant whatever the price rule, and something which represents the state of ACTUAL class). so, Fred, I think you are creating a straw man (or woman). rb riccardo -- Riccardo Bellofiore Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Via dei Caniana 2 I-24127 Bergamo, Italy e-mail: bellofio@unibg.it, bellofio@cisi.unito.it direct +39-035-2052545 secretary +39-035 2052501 fax: +39 035 2052549 homepage: http://www.unibg.it/dse/homebellofiore.htm
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