PEN-L message, Re: [Pen-l] Moishe Postone

Re: [Pen-l] Moishe Postone

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Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Moishe Postone

From: Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:11:40 -0500

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On Jan 31, 2009, at 12:42 PM, Jim Devine wrote:

It's absolutely true that Marx produced a critique of political
economy (crucially, that it suffers from commodity fetishism), but
there's enough stuff in CAPITAL to give us the basis for developing an
alternative political economics. Frankly, I think that Marx himself
overstated the extent to which he was simply criticizing Smith,
Ricardo, Malthus, _et al_.

I don't quite agree. Marx, I believe, used the term Critique (Kritik) in an entirely *Kantian* sense, going through the contradictions of political economy to clarify the rational kernel of its fundamental presuppositions as Kant did in his three critiques (of Judgment, Practical Reason, and Pure Reason). Just as Hegel erected the "Philosophical Sciences" on the underlying basis of the Kantian critiques, so Marx undertook the (never-to-be-completed) construction of a new Economic Science on the basis of his accomplished critique.

Shane Mage

This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it

always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,

kindling in measures and going out in measures."

Herakleitos of Ephesos

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Re: [Pen-l] Fictitious Value vs. Marxian value, (continued)

Re: [Pen-l] Fictitious Value vs. Marxian value, Jim Devine Sat 31 Jan 2009, 14:55 GMT

Re: [Pen-l] Fictitious Value vs. Marxian value, Michael Perelman Sat 31 Jan 2009, 16:36 GMT

[Pen-l] Moishe Postone, Carrol Cox Sat 31 Jan 2009, 16:52 GMT

Re: [Pen-l] Moishe Postone, Jim Devine Sat 31 Jan 2009, 17:15 GMT

Re: [Pen-l] Moishe Postone, Shane Mage Sat 31 Jan 2009, 19:43 GMT

Re: [Pen-l] Moishe Postone, Jim Devine Sat 31 Jan 2009, 20:01 GMT

Re: [Pen-l] Moishe Postone, Sandwichman Sat 31 Jan 2009, 17:51 GMT

Re: [Pen-l] Moishe Postone, Carrol Cox Sat 31 Jan 2009, 19:23 GMT

Re: [Pen-l] Fictitious Value vs. Marxian value, Jim Devine Sat 31 Jan 2009, 16:59 GMT