RE: [A-List] Attention: Mark Jones

["Mark Jones" <jones118@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Melvin wrote:


> I trust you are doing well and holding your ground.

Yes, I am well thanks and thanks for the kind remarks, I hadn't been copying
any of it here not to seem egomaniac.

 >I read with delight and intellectual stimulation
>your lengthy article to Marxmail concerning Soviet
>Industrial development and the working of the "iron law
>of value" in the context of any society based on the
>industrial production. For reasons of history such a
>discussion is called "a look at Stalinism."

> This question of the law of value strikes at the
>core of the Marxist concept of the "mode of production
>in material life."

>In a personal sense I have staked 99% of everything
>that I have written - which is not inconsiderable,
>on an accurate description of the working of the law
>of value as it operates under the industrial system
>of production in general - and, in real time as it evolves daily.

> I would like to do a friendly critique of your article with
>emphasis on "friendly."

I'm looking forward to it.

> Brother Mark,

>I was a slave in American history and my ideology and politics
>was generated in a specific frame of time and I have a
>distinct point of view about the mode of production. This
>means a point of view about value and the value system -
>and the energy source, which I will not engage you on,
>when considered from the stand point of thermodynamics!

> With warmest regards


>Melvin P

I agree about Stalin, so that makes 2 of us on the Net anyhow! And about
Marxian value theory too..

best

Mark