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Jerry Levy <jerry_levy@usa.net> said, on 05/12/00 at 09:21 AM:
>Paul Z wrote in [OPE-L:3143]:
>> Capitalism is assumed to have completely occupied the space of
>> theoretical discussion.
>This assumption, though, becomes very problematic when we are at a level
>of abstraction in which foreign trade and the world market and crises are
>considered. Can we agree that *even if* this is the operating assumption
>of Marx in _Capital_, it is inadequate to address these more concrete
>subjects?
Yes, a misleading assumption for Marx to make. Dunayevskaya attempts a
favorable twist on the statement which I'm in the process of working up.
Paul Z.
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