dms: > Personally, I think there is much more to be > gained from the concrete analysis of the concrete > conditions of exchange, production, overproduction, > and profit, here and now, then and there, or any > combination thereof.
Hey dms! Tell me how you are planning to conduct that concrete analysis? I once had a student in my partial differential equations class who told me that because we were studying some concrete physical problems, things should have been much simpler. What that young fellow did not realize was that what we were studying were not some concrete physical problems but some simplified abstractions of them. This was why our mathematical tools, however difficult they may be to comprehend, worked. When it comes to real concrete physical problems, our mathematical tools fare quite poorly. Here is another anecdote: I had a very smart Chinese research brother. That is, we were the students of the same professor. He once told me that every year in China thousands of amateur mathematicians used to submit solutions to the Chinese Academy of Sciences of Fermat's then unsolved last problem. Of course, all those solutions were wrong. And my Chinese brother concluded his story with this: You cannot go to the moon by bike! You need a space craft for that... Best, Sabri