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Where do you get the idea vol 3 was written first? Vol 1 was published when Marx was alive, vol 3 was *put together by Engels after Marx's death*. Engels didn't mistranslate (in either the literal sense of the word or in the wider meaning). He worked with Marx with nearly 40 years; he didn't misunderstand or mistake Marx's theory of crisis. Moreover, Vol 3 could not have been written first because all the core concepts it is based on didn't exist without vol 1 and 2. Also, the three vols play different parts. Vol 1 is about production, vol 2 is about distribution and vol 3 is about the capitalist system as a whole and how it actually operates. Btw, even as early as the Grundrisse, which precedes vol 1, he noted that LTRPF is 'the single most important law of modern political eocnomy'. There's no evidence he ever changed his mind. That's why vol 3 spends 50 pages on the subject. 'Magnitude over form' has nothing to do with it. Phil On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Jamie <marinercarpen...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think frop is at best a partial reading of Marx, at worst, a complete > mistranslation. Y'all get he didn't pick the argument up again 4 20 yrs > right? (vol.III being written first). Its a question of magnitude over > form, I.e. Framed > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
