Re: [Marxism] Wisdom and Society

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Brown wrote:
> 
> Mark Lause
> [clip] 
> 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 ?

"Capitalist accumulation" is _not_ HISTORY. It is a very specific
process within a very specific context -- the accumulation of exchange
(not use) value under the conditions of capitalist production. There
could be no "law" (absolute or otherwise) of the accumulation of _use_
values under capitalism or any other system.

And since one way to describe the goal of socialism is the replacement
of exchange value by use value, there can be no law of socialist
accumulation.

Carrol

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