Hi Mark, David - and Ben who started this chain: Like Mark you yourself - I need to go into this much more before saying too much. I had made some minor forays into this about 2 years ago or whenever it re-surfaced here. But Tom's analysis deserves a much more careful response that and also - of necessity - it needs to be quite far-ranging.
But one of David's comments was also my own response to a 'T' FWIW. Namely that it is a jump far too far to say: "As far as I can tell, concept of "freeing" productive forces comes from a sentence that Marx inserted in the 1859 Preface to a Critique of Political Economy". Along with David's note of Engels' writings, I think it is reasonable to say that the whole thrust of 'Capital 'Volume 1 is along those lines. Plucking a single page or quote under-cuts the arguments of the book itself. Probably that does not need too much defence as a statement... But may well need it if some find that objectionable. Be well H -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40377): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40377 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/117439078/21656 -=-=- 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
