From: Dogan Goecmen (Dogangoecmen@AOL.COM)
Date: Fri Dec 08 2006 - 17:29:22 EST
Dear David in Capital, Vol. 1, Part VIII: Primitive Accumulation, Chapter Thirty-Two: Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation, in the paragraph before the last paragraph Marx says: *The capitalist mode of appropriation, the result of the capitalist mode of production, produces capitalist private property. This is the first negation of individual private property, as founded on the labor of the proprietor. But capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of Nature, its own negation. It is the negation of negation. This does not re-establish private property for the producer, but gives him individual property based on the acquisition of the capitalist era: i.e., on co-operation and the possession in common of the land and of the means of production.* See: _http://www.marx.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch32.htm_ (http://www.marx.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch32.htm) ; alternatively: Karl Marx, Capital, Moscow: Progress Publishers, Vol. I, p. 715. If more references needed please let us know. There are many similar passages in various other works of Marx and Engels. Since you put in your email Marx on the first place I selected a passage from Capital. Cheers Dogan In einer eMail vom 08.12.2006 22:40:26 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt dlaibman@SCIENCEANDSOCIETY.COM: Dear OPE comrades, Folks on this list are *so good* at tracking things down, that I could not resist passing this one along. One of my colleagues at *Science & Society,* Barbara Foley, asks: where does Marx (I think she would include Engels as well) put forward the idea that history proceeds in spiral form -- i.e., negation of the negation, with elements present in the first-posited stage returning, in a "higher" state, in a third stage? Any references would be appreciated. In solidarity, David David Laibman
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