Carrol Cox wrote: > Marx repeatedly in Capital distinguishes between capitalists as capitalists > and capitalists as people. As pure capitalists they do not sleep or eat or > fuck, they merely perform the abstract function of capitalists to accumulate. > So Grossman and Heinrich are both right and there is no contradiction.<
Angelus Novus writes: > Heinrich is describing what the *aim* of production is in the capitalist mode > of production, namely the accumulation of capital. < right. In CAPITAL, Marx main discussion is about the objective functioning of capitalism, not the subjective motivations of the individual capitalists. No matter what the subjective motivation (the Faustian choice Marx refers to), the system as a whole only can operate via the accumulation of capital, i.e., the use of capitalist power to extend that power. -- Jim Devine / If you're going to support the lesser of two evils, you should at least know the nature of that evil. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
