On 12/18/06, Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Marx put primitive accumulation in the back of volume 1 because he wanted to emphasize that the crux of capitalism was the "fair" exploitation by way of markets. This is not to deny the importance of primitive accumulation.
I disagree (though not completely). I think the reason why PA appears at the end of volume I is primarily that he organized the book starting with the abstract (the most general phenomenon of capitalism, the commodity) and worked toward the concrete. [Frankly, I think his mode of presentation may have been a mistake, since it deters a lot of readers and encourages misinterpretations.] -- Jim Devine / "The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society." -- Karl Marx.
