Re: Re: Jim D.'s Micro Marx

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> CB: I wonder whether it is pertinent to this thread that Marx sees the
> microlevel unit  or individual firm as planning for itself ; all of the
> individual plans are not coordinated on the macro level , where there is
> anarchy. This anarchy at the macro level eventually causes crisis on many
> individual microlevels, disrupting many private plans.

Anarchy of production is a fact of life under capitalism, though of course
within the capitalist enterprise, it's a dictatorship of the bosses over
the employees.

> I guess I should throw in, for Marx , the basic contradiction of
> capitalism is the private (micro) nature of appropropriation and the
> social (macro) nature of production.

right. As far as I know, Marx never said that. Engels did, though.



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