Whether or not, and when, Marx forecast absolute or relative immiseration is not the main Marxist rebuttal (textualists to the contrary).
Marx gave us the concept of the mode of production, defined by its forces of production and relations of production. He gave us the motor that drives the capitalist mode, the exploitation of surplus value and its contradictory accumulation into new capital. It is up to us to trace the working out ( http://www.hollowcolossus.com ) of all this. What counts most, of course, is not how it worked out in Marx's lifetime and how he remarked about it more or less seriously here or there. What counts most is the path of capital accumulation and its consequences for the working class in recent times and today. But the textualists know how to evade this. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39281): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39281 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116301050/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
