From: Jurriaan Bendien (adsl675281@TISCALI.NL)
Date: Sat Apr 08 2006 - 06:50:33 EDT
Well, as should be obvious from my short article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_value on this topic, I think Albritton's interpretation is a crass, shoddy and vulgar caricature. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels would have made mincemeat of this nonsense, in the same way as they attacked the verities of Dr Adolph Wagner. The real question does not concern at all whether businessmen are "indifferent to use value" or not - it concerns what specific interest or stake businessmen have in the use-value of commodities, including the commodity labour-power. As I briefly indicated, they do have one. The idea that Albritton is also presenting this paper in Cuba is laughable to me, and it shows how far Marxism has intellectually degenerated. With "friends of Marx" like that, there will never be any viable socialism anywhere. To get a better idea of who is indifferent to what, Albritton would be better of researching e.g. a paper on the US Food and Drug Administration http://www.fda.gov/ or the US Patent and Trademark Office http://www.uspto.gov/. ".the project of Grand Theory - to find a total systematised conceptualisation of all history and human occasions - is the original heresy of metaphysics against knowledge.it is an exercise of closure, and it stems from a kind of intellectual agoraphobia, an anxiety before the uncertain and the unknown, a yearning for security within the calm of the absolute" - E.P. Thompson, The Poverty of Theory. Jurriaan
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