(OPE-L) Re: is value labour?

[gerald_a_levy <gerald_a_levy@xxxxxxx>]

 

Paul C wrote on Wednesday, May 07:

 

> Eyes in vertebrates are systematically connected to the primary
> visual cortex and cannot function without it. Thus it is clear
> eyes are specific and particular form of development of the
> vertebrate nervous system, and in consequence - appearances
> to the contrary, molluscs are eyeless.

 

Indeed mollusks are eyeless.  But, who was talking about

mollusks?   Ontological conceptions vary with the subject matter.

Thus, how we strive to systematically comprehend a subject

matter varies depending upon the intrinsic nature of the

subject matter itself.  The analysis of capitalism requires the

systematic enrichment and exposition of categories of social

form specific to that mode of production.  That doesn't include

eyes or lack of eyes. But it does mean that, for instance, the

commodity-form and the value-form and the money-form and

the capital-form must be grasped within the context of the totality

of capitalism. 

 

In solidarity, Jerry