> On Oct 16, 2015, at 2:43 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This is equivalent to Postone's comment that "Marx wrote a Critique of > Political Economy, not a critical political economy.”
===== Which is rather Kantian, when one thinks about it a bit. That is; Marx wanted to critique political economy as a discourse as Kant wanted to critique philosophy, just as it broke into many topics/discourses, a breaking that his own work helped make happen significantly. Who was the guy who did the book about Marx’ attempt to leave philosophy by changing the subject? Ditto for what he seems to have been attempting when he critiqued political economy as a discourse while savaging the capitalism of his time. The critique of actually existing capitalism is not the same as the critique of contemporary ‘mainstream’ economics. One of the tragedies lies in thinking that if maintstream economics is shown to be riddled with errors, that people will want to get rid of the social system that propels some people to want to do economics as a discourse. Ditto for the critique of law. The problem[s] of expertise is/are the problem[s] of Plato’s Guardians. Herding cats…. > > I suppose that, roughly, one could say that Marx would have hooted at the > idea of "Marxist Economics." > > Carrol > > ==== Indeed. E. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
