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[OPE-L:6512] Re: totality

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Re Rakesh's [6511]:

Of course, take your time. In thinking about this

question re 'totality' and the world market, (re-) consider

please the meaning of the following sections of the

_Grundrisse_:

-- p. 108 (all page #s refer to Penguin edition);

-- pp. 227-28 in particular:

"the world market the CONCLUSION, in which production

is posited as a TOTALITY together with all its moments,

but within which, at the same time, ALL contradictions

come into play. The world market then, again, forms the

presumption of the WHOLE as well as its substratum.

Crises are then the general intimation

which points beyond the presupposition, and the urge

which drives towards the adoption of the new historic

form" (emphasis added, JL)

-- p. 264 in particular:

"Finally the world market. Encroachment of bourgeois

society over the state. Crises. Dissolution of the mode of

production and form of society based on exchange value.

Real positing of individual labour as social and vice versa".

In solidarity, Jerry