From: michael a. lebowitz (mlebowit@SFU.CA)
Date: Thu Feb 05 2004 - 16:01:14 EST
At 12:14 05/02/2004, jerry wrote: >Hi Alejandro: > >Do you -- or others on the list -- know what debates on this >subject have occurred in China by Marxists _since 1989_ when >the article by Lichtenstein in the _Atlantic Economic Review_ >was published? To what extent are they familiar with >contemporary debates on these topics elsewhere? > >In solidarity, Jerry I posted the following a little while ago on pen-l in response to comments about Chinese Marxists: >>Subject: China's new Marxist left >> >> I don't know if you could say that the 'Marxists' were entirely >> marginalised. At an official conference of Marxist economists in Beijing >> less than two years ago, I was struck by the vigour with which the >> assembled Chinese Marxist economists were discussing the law of value--- >> in particular, how to demonstrate that utility yields value and the >> capitalist is a productive worker. (All this in response to a call from >> above for updating the law of value for the modern socialist market >> economy--- and a week before a number of capitalists received the 'model >> worker' awards for May Day.) Han Deqiang (mentioned in a note by Stephen >> as China's best left economist) was not invited to the conference (but >> instead was speaking to many students). He said he probably was not >> invited because he didn't agree with the theory of productive forces >> (ie., that all that matters is that the productive forces advance). He >> will, however, be at the Marx Conference in Havana in May (along with >> David Harvey, Samir Amin, Istvan Meszaros, Leo Panitch and a host of others). >> in solidarity, >> michael Michael A. Lebowitz Professor Emeritus Economics Department Simon Fraser University Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6 Currently based in Venezuela. Can be reached at Anauco Suites, Room 601 Caracas, Venezuela (58-212) 573-4111 fax: (58-212) 573-7724
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