From: Paul Bullock (paulbullock@EBMS-LTD.CO.UK)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 04:08:28 EDT
For Rakesh: If I remember well enough Marx made a comment during this later time that he had 'finished with all that *** ' when refering to the studies of Capital, meaning that he had solved the basic problems. His studies of the Turkish material on Rent, his learning of Turkish eg, doesn't indicate a search for an easier task to me! Remember the 'cubic metres' of material on the topic found by Engels after Marx's death...marx wanted to trace back the historical origin of rent as a 'turkish' form. When Jurriian says 'although I believe Marx was a little Eurocentric in his view of Russian society, he could not see any positive features of peasant society', there seems a one sided judgement given Marx's overall research on rent in later life, although he never worked that detail up for publication. On the other hand the peasant does get neglected rather, and here Jurriian seems feel the same as Mitrany. (Chasing off on long boat /train journeys to Oran in those days doesn't seem too easy a task either!) Paul. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Perelman" <michael@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU> To: <OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 1:26 AM Subject: Re: (OPE-L) The last years of Karl Marx > 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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