[Marxism] Wisdom and Society

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Lause 

But there were many claimants to this.  Over the past few weeks, I was
reading Henry Thomas Buckle, an English scholar cited by early American
socialists much more than Marx and Engels.  He interests me as someone like
August Comte, who were seeking laws of history that would be comparable to
Newton's laws of gravity or Darwin's concept of evolution....

I'm almost certain that Marx never made such a claim and I'm not really sure
whether Engels intended to do so.

^^^^^^

CB: If in _Capital_ Marx did not develop "laws of history" what is

The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation ? The absolue general law of
capitalist accumulation ?

Karl Marx
Capital Volume One


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Part VII:
The Accumulation of Capital

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Chapter Twenty-Five:
The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation 

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Contents 

Section 1 - The Increased Demand for Labour-Power that Accompanies
Accumulation, the Composition of Capital Remaining the same 
Section 2 - Relative Diminution of the Variable Part of Capital
Simultaneously with the Progress of Accumulation and of the Concentration
that Accompanies it 
Section 3 - Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus-Population or
Industrial Reserve Army 
Section 4 - Different Forms of the Relative Surplus-Population. The General
Law of Capitalistic Accumulation 
Section 5 - Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation 




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