[Marxism] Marxism Ultra-lite Re: Marxism Lite

[Steve Palmer <spalmer999@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure why Louis posted this, since there are hundreds, perhaps thousands 
of such posts across the net from people who have never read Marx or thought 
deeply about what he said and who certainly haven't begun to understand him.

The guy obviously has no idea what he is talking about, since he asserts that 
Marx claimed that 'Marx and the Marxists want to employ a labor theory of value 
because they want to maintain that the worker does not get the full value of 
his labor, and that he is âswindledâ out of the surplus value he creates'. 
Actually Marx goes to great pains to show capitalism is not, at core a system 
which swindles people, but one which exploits them, which exploits their 
labour. Although it encourages greed and selfishness, and spawns corruption and 
swindling, these are its consequences, not its causes. The worker is paid the 
value of his commodity, the value of his labour-power, which he sells the 
capitalist.

Bukharin put the boot into marginalism in Economic Theory of the Leisure Class:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1927/leisure-economics/index.htm

The 'Cambridge Controversies in Capital Theory' annihilated the bourgeois 
theory of capital decades ago. Although non-marxist, it did sufficient damage 
to demand serious refutation and the battle continues spasmodically.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_controversy

Any serious claim of this kind would have mentioned and responded to these 
criticisms.


--- On Sun, 12/7/08, Greg McDonald <sabocat59@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Anyone carte to tackle this?
> 
> Greg McDonald


      

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