Re: Questions of value and the development of economics

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Colin Clarke wrote:
>
> The
> other Rubin book is best read after Capital as it isn't an easy read.
>
> Colin
>

It's an extremely difficult read. But the Introduction to it by Fredy
Perlman is not so difficult. Black & Red was an anarchist group, and
most on this list, including me, would have their quarrels with parts of
Perlman's thought. But I found it enormously helpful in the early years
of my study of Marx. It might be very helpful to those who seem to try
to understand Marx's theory of value within a context of their
spontaneous "common sense" (i.e., bourgeois ideology) on economic
matters. It drives home the fact that Marx was funamentally concerned
with capitalist relations, not with technical explanations of varition
in tomorrow's prices. Value is, uttimately, a political relation, not a
price tag.

Carrol

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