Re: Forwarded from Phil Ferguson

[Hinrich Kuhls <kls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Philip, thanks for replying:

>The problem George raises simply does not exist.

The problem is not the fact that George's notion is wrong, but the problem
is "why" does he raise this point. That was the content of my post; you
pass that over in silence.

>Since capitalism is the society of *generalised
>commodity production*, ie the society in which the dominant form of
>production is the production of commodities (goods for sale on the market)

Your generalisation doesn't seem to differ from George's premisse: "So the
capitalist mode of production can prevail in more than one society."

>In any case, I am still - like Louis obviously - at a complete loss to see
>what relevance George's (wrong) notion has to anything anyway . . .

Obviously? Alice-in-Wonderland-lucidity.

Hinrich