value form

[bhandari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rakesh Bhandari)]

>Marx's valid
>insights into the operation of capitalist firms are obscured by, rather than
>dependent on, his value-theoretic categories.

Gil, have you read Hans-Dieter Bahr's "The Class Structure of Machinery:
Notes on the Value Form" in Outlines of A Critique of Technology, ed. Phil
Slater. Humanities Press, 1980. An argument like this you will not find in
the journals of managerial science. If you can't find Slater's book, do
tell me what you think of Moishe Postone's last chapter, also based on the
value form. I really am interested in what someone of your analytical
prowess makes of such arguments.

Thank you,
Rakesh