V2: Much of Marx's works were not published until long after his death, including his key 1844 works on private property (published in the mid 1930s).
According to that formula the two last volumes of Capital, the Grundrisse (all of it, including the Precapitalist Formations), Theories of Surplus Value, and so on would have to considered casual flights of Karl's imagination. ^^^^ CB: Why did I know somebody would say this ? The one I'd find kind of indispensable are the Theses on Feuerbach. Don't take this too far. I am the one using the fettering metaphor a lot and its in the Preface to the Contribution. I use Marx's description of "his dialectic" from one of the prefaces to Capital a lot. On the other hand, there's a famous vulgarish formulation published in _Capital_ I along the lines that a windmill gives you feudalism and a steam engine gives you capitalism or some such. I guess the practical critical question is do you expect there to arise in the near future a new class formation other than capitalist/bourgeoisie due to developments in science and technology, or centralization and monopolization of the instruments of production and other forces of production , as the formula in the penultimate chapter of Capital I goes ? Do you expect that the current leaps in technology will by their development force the people to change their class relations to a new type of class relations, new property relations, new relations of production ? Will people institute socialism because the computer chip revolution changes work in a way that they go out directly and change the state and laws ? _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
