Jim D:
I think the reason why so many (including Doug Henwood and myself)
have turned to Keynes to complement Marx's theories is that Marx never
finished his theory. He had no finished theory of crises, for example.
Two out of the three volumes of CAPITAL are totally unfinished, while
as Mike Lebowitz argues, he never really got started on his planned
book on wage labor (which would look at the system from labor's
perspective among other things). ^^^^^^ CB: Isn't it possible that Marx didn't finish his theory of crises on purpose ? I'm thinking he didn't want those following his approach to spend too much time in developing reform programs and struggle to the detriment of revolutionary struggle. Not to mention his position was that capitalism couldn't be reformed; that crises can't be gotten rid of, no matter how good the crisis theory, no ? He finished Vol. I and in the penultimate chapter mentions the expropriation of the expropriators. He lived for 13 years after 1867, plenty of time to finish a theory of crises. Perhaps this supports Carrol's idea that Marx made only a critique.
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