From: Paul Zarembka (zarembka@buffalo.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 16:10:53 EST
One new paragraph is not going to change anybody'd opinion of Red Rosa; it is consistent with other parts. But I had an experience finding a major typo in Bukharin's critique of her which led to something very misleading. Paul *********************************************************************** "Confronting 9-11, Ideologies of Race, and Eminent Economists", Vol. 20 RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY, Paul Zarembka, editor, Elsevier Science ******************** http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, gerald_a_levy wrote: > Re Paul Z's [8519]: > > Paul: the publication of the new translation is certainly good news. > Clearly, the additional paragraph is -- as you say -- "non-trivial". > Yet, how significant is it for the interpretation of the work. Didn't > Luxemburg write basically the same thing in other places in _The > Accumulation of Capital_? > > In solidarity, Jerry > > > Please note that the middle paragraph on p. 339 was NOT in the 1951 > > English translation. Alejandro Ramos translated it from the German > > original for my own work in Volume 18 of the *Research* and I passed it > > along to the editor of this new edition. For those specializing in such > > matters, the additional paragraph is non-trivial. (snip, JL) > > [The English translation is as follows:] > > "It must be noted that, when we assumed above that only the > > surplus product of the first or the second department is realized in a > > non?capitalist milieu, we were taking the most favorable case for > > examining Marx's schemes, a case which shows the conditions of > > reproduction in its purity. In reality, nothing forces us to assume that > > there is not a fraction of the constant and variable capital which is also > > realized out of the capitalist realm. Accordingly, the expansion of > > production as well as the replacement in kind of the materials consumed in > > production may be undertaken by means of products from the non?capitalist > > sphere. What should be clear from the above?mentioned examples is the > > fact that, at least, it is impossible that the capitalized surplus value > > and the corresponding part of the capitalist output can be realized within > > the capitalist realm; this part must be sold out of the capitalist sphere, > > in social strata and forms which do not produce in capitalist way." > > [translated by Alejandro Ramos-Martinez] > > > >
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