My comment on silliness was not denying the high correlation between
prices of production and values that many have fon found. I was
referring (opaquely, I admit) to Marx's poor method of presentation.
Not only did he hope that CAPITAL could be read by ordinary workers,
but his method has spawned too many arguments about what in heck he
was talking about. Too many have embrace d what I think of as a
misinterpretation, i.e., that he was developing some soe sort of
Ricardian theory of prices rather than criticizing that theory.
Maybe I'm too much of an academic, but I like books that have
summaries of their conclusions at teh start and sketch their
method of analysis (marx's method is explained only in posthumously-
published works such as the GRUNDRISSE) -- I guess Marx didn't
expect to die before he got to the end.
in pen-l solidarity,
Jim Devine BITNET: jndf@lmuacad INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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