Re: AUT: Remarks on Midnight Notes

[Gerald Levy <glevy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Doug Henwood wrote:

> Gerald Levy wrote:
> >2) To ask "what does this fine distinction do for you politically" is to
> >ask the wrong question. The "ultimate aim" of _Capital_ was to "reveal the
> >economic law of motion of modern society". It was not intended as a "How
> >to" book re strategy and tactics for revolutionaries.
> Surely the guy who wrote that famous thesis about changing the world, and
> not merely understanding it, might have a slightly different take on this
> question.

The same "guy" who wrote the "Theses on Fuerbach" wrote (in July, 1867 in
the "Preface to the First Edition" to _Capital_, Volume 1):

"... it is the ultimate aim of this work to reveal the economic law of
modern society" (Penguin ed., p. 92).

Thus, I would suggest that I have the same "take" on this question as that
"guy".

Jerry



     --- from list aut-op-sy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---