From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Thu Feb 08 2007 - 16:36:01 EST
Howard: I think that the *end* of the paragraph is key for interprerting this passage. Marx wroite: "We will return later to this point, which, WHILE HAVING MORE OF A LOGICAL THAN AN ECONOMIC CHARACTER, will nevertheless have a GREAT IMPORTANCE IN THE COURSE OF OUR INQUIRY" (emphasis added, JL). He continued: "The same also in algrebra. For example, a, b, c are numbers as such; in general; but they are whole numbers as opposed to a/b, b/c, c/b, c/a, b/a etc. , which later, however, presuppose the former as general elements". He is making, then, a basic methodological point about the logical *order* in which the subject matter must be reconstructed in thought. Before we can comprehend the inter-relation of capitals on a world level, we must first grasp capital-in-general. Before we can grasp "the third nation", we must first grasp capital more generally and abstractly. Book 1 comes before Book 6. In solidarity, Jerry
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