From: Jerry Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Sun Sep 10 2006 - 12:45:09 EDT
> The development of markets occurred > hand-in-hand with the development of public authorities and contracting > institutions that defined/protected property rights, thus, state and > market were "twins" from the very start. Hi Jurriaan: I agree that the original/primitive accumulation of capital was a process in which the state played an essential role. So, too, with the accumulation of capital proper. Capital and the state continue as "twins" to this very day! One consequence of Marx's inability to write the proposed book on The State in the 6-book-plan is that it reinforced an unfortunate tendency among Marxists to downplay the theoretical and historical role of the state within the cmp. This has had unfortunate political consequences as well, including an unnecessarily wide divide among (most) anarchists and (most) Marxists. Yet another consequence of the "one-sided Marxism" which Mike L subjected to critique in his book _Beyond Capital_: we must go "beyond capital" not only to consider the subject (capitalism, not merely capital) from the standpoint of wage-labor but also to systematically consider the role of the state, trade, and the world market. Maybe Mike is going to write the sequels? Probably not -- he's already got a full plate, a hectic schedule, and other commitments. Geert and Mike W took a shot at it with their book _Value-Form and the State_ and Tony S has been working on the subject of the world market for some time. It would seem, at least to me, that the value-form Marxists and the "Hegelian-Marxists" are in the forefront of these research endeavors. What a contrast to the sterile research focus of some others which asserts that "the point" is to interpret Marx "correctly". In solidarity, Jerry
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