From: Michael Perelman (michael@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU)
Date: Sun Apr 27 2003 - 20:26:04 EDT
but Marx's health was poor during those last year's. I suspect that the anthropology was a less draining activity. On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 05:12:35PM -0700, rakeshb@STANFORD.EDU wrote: > Just to clarify: I think Mark Jones meant to infer Marx's > disillusionment with the prospects of revolution in the advanced > outposts of capitalism from his having spent so many of his later > years on what became The Ethnological Notebooks, ed. Lawrence > Krader. > I do know that one of Krader's students Cyril Levitt wrote a > dissertation on those Notebooks and Marx's formulations as they > relate to the nature of medieval Indian society are discussed by > Ram Sharan Sharma. Of course the ethnology on which Marx > commented has been discussed in forbidding detail by > anthropologists. > But why did Marx spend time on these questions rather than > prepare Capital and TSV for publication? > Yours, Rakesh -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael@ecst.csuchico.edu
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