At 06/02/02 20:10 -0800, you wrote: >This definition of course does not capture the systemic and dynamic >features which Chris B is attempting to build into his definition.
"The law of value of commodities ultimately determines how much of its disposable working-time society can expend on each particular class of commodities." V Vol I Ch 14 Sec 4 And how could Marx define the "absolute general law of capitalist accumulation" in the way he does in Ch XXV if his theory of value was not a) dynamic b )systemic? Mine is not an overimaginative reading of the overall thrust of Marx's approach, (although unimaginative readings of Marx's theory are more than possible). Chris Burford
