From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Mon Apr 05 2004 - 15:02:59 EDT
Hi Paul B: > It seems to me that much of the discussion on these matters seems > to start from the 'idea' and not from the facts, and once stuck with an > idea there seems to be no way out, only a fruitless argument about its > applicability. Neither Marx nor I started from an 'idea' or mere [empty] concept. The 'starting point' of the commodity was selected because the subject matter of bourgeois society can be explained through a systematic dialectical presentation beginning with the commodity because it, in a nutshell, expresses all of the contraditions inherent in the CMP. I don't have it in front of me now -- but Marx says quite explicitly in the "Marginal Notes on Wagner" that he does _not_ begin with a concept but rather the way in which wealth in bourgois society is most typically expressed. In solidarity, Jerry
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