Re: Some questions

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Heavens. Marx would never have said such a thing. I was characterizing
Keynes's view, not KM's. My point was that whatever the similarities
between M and K in analyzing the centrality of money to Kapitalist
accumulation, their political conclusions were radically different, and
that Marx's were far more reasonable. It's rare that Marx is described as
reasonable, but here's a special case.

Doug

Doug Henwood [dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx]
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On Tue, 11 Jan 1994 FAC_BROSSER@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>      Where did Marx state that the "monied class" could be
> "painlessly neutralized"?  I know that Marx was not internally
> consistent in his writings (e.g. the infamous "transformation
> problem"), but it is certainly my perception that he spent many
> pages, for example in Vol. I of Capital, describing in almost
> excruciating detail the vigor and methods by which the capitalists
> would defend their interests.  Through most of his career, if
> not all of it, he forecast a proletarian revolution, which, as
> Mao put "would not be a dinner party," although as Lenin put it,
> "you have to break some eggs in order to make an omelette."  If
> by "monied classes" Doug Henwood is referring to the feudal
> aristocracy, even there the process was hardly painless in Marx's
> eyes as shown by the French Revolution.
> Barkley Rosser
> James Madison University