RE: [OPE] question re published letters Engels

From: Paul Cockshott <wpc@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
Date: Sat May 09 2009 - 18:55:33 EDT

Ok , take the full quote
 "In der Tat aber ist der ökonomische Wert eine der
Warenproduktion angehörige Kategorie und verschwindet mit ihr (s.
'Dühring', S. 252-62), wie er vor ihr nicht bestand. Das Verhältnis
von Arbeit zu Produkt drückt sich vor der Warenproduktion und nach ihr
nicht mehr in der Form von Wert aus"

I am in accord with the 2nd sentence, but I think that in the first sentence
Engels confuses value with the form of value when he uses the ambiguous phrase ökonomische Wert. What he should say is that
"In der Tat aber ist der Tauschwert eine der
Warenproduktion angehörige Kategorie und verschwindet mit ihr (s.
'Dühring', S. 252-62), wie er vor ihr nicht bestand."

As he says this is essentially the same formulation that he gave in Anti Dhuhring, the substance of the policy recomendations there I agree with, but his terminology is not as precise as that used by Marx.
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From: ope-bounces@lists.csuchico.edu [ope-bounces@lists.csuchico.edu] On Behalf Of Gerald Levy [jerry_levy@verizon.net]
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 11:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [OPE] question re published letters Engels

[Paul C wrote:]
> I dont see that this is inconsistent with what I am saying.

Hi Paul:
See below.
In solidarity, Jerry

> But in fact, however, economic value is a category specific to
> commodity production, and *disappears* with the latter, as it likewise did
> not exist prior to commodity production.

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