Re: [OPE] debates on whether value existed in pre-capitalist society

Hi Jerry,

You write

"it failed to grasp the specific, historically-constituted, social relations
associated with value."

Yes, but then to Paul's earlier question -- do these specific,
historically-constituted, social relations associated with value pre date
capitalism?

I want to return to the question on abstraction raised during the summer and
will get to it in the next days.

I had a moment on Penobscot Bay and thought of you sailing.

howard

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From: "GERALD LEVY" <gerald_a_levy@msn.com>
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Subject: Re: [OPE] debates on whether value existed in pre-capitalist
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>
>
> There were many conceptions - some of them religious in origin - of
> *valuable* in pre-capitalist history. The concept of value - as I have
> repeatedly said over the years - can not be conflated with the concept of
> valuable. A theory of value - in its most important, qualitative
> dimension - expresses a particular set of social (class) relations. It is
> precisely the failing of pre-Marxian thought that it failed to grasp the
> specific, historically-constituted, social relations associated with
> value.
>
> In solidarity, Jerry
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