Re: Marx vs. Roemer

["Justin Schwartz" <jkschw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

my understanding is that Roemer would have
> >accepted
> >Marx's story (of capitalist exploitation as based on structural coercion)
> >when he developed his own story, but saw the structural coercion as
> >unnecessary to the existence of exploitation.
> >
>
> That is exactly correct.
>
> jks
> ^^^^^
>
> Charles: On this Roemer makes the understanding of capitalism less exact
> than Marx's,

I agree, but why do you think so?

yet he crtiques Marx under the rubric of making him more exact. Marx
developed nice empirically based differentia specifica for capitalist
exploitation; Roemer seeks to make the understanding more blunt, less sharp.

Roemer's point is logical, that on his notion of exploitation, you can have
exploitation without corcion. I discuss this at length in my paper on the
subject; so dooes Jim in his and Dymski's now classic paper.

jks

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