Re: immanent critique (was: dialectics)

[Ajit Sinha <ecas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:10 4/12/97 -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
>The basis for Marx's critique is expressed pretty clearly in the 1844
>MANUSCRIPTS, which Marx never repudiated.
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But Jim, Marx never needed to repudiate it because he never even tried to
publish it. After Marx's death, Kautsky was aware of the existence of EPM,
and he approached Engels so that they could publish it. Engels responded
that when Marx was young he wrote a lot of things including love poems to
Jenny, and he is sure that Marx wouldn't want them to be published.

I, however, personally think that EPM is a great piece of work--the only
true Hegelian work Marx has written. But i agree with Ricardo that there is
a great shift in Marx's approach in CAPITAL from EPM. I think my papers in
RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY, vols 12 and 15, 1990, 1996, throws some
light on such issues. Cheers, ajit sinha