For a dialectician, for Marx, extraction of the real content requires the overthrow of the alienated form. Political economy is precisely the alienated form. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane Mage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 11:08 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] dicta
> Carroll wrote: > > > > > >Just a point, and I don't think it's minor or just > >> >semantic. There is no Marxian political economy. > >> >There is no Marxist political economy. Marxism begins > > > >with a contribution to the end of political economy. > >> > >> says who? > > > >Well, I suppose one could answer, Karl Marx, on the title page of the > >first volume of Capital: > > > > Kritik der politschen Oekonomie > > > >Not being a Marxologist, I won't enter the argument myself. > > Surely Kant had no intention of making "a contribution to the end of" > Pure Reason, Practical Reason, or Judgment. > > For Marx, a dialectician, *critique* is the negative moment of the > development of a positive science. > > Shane Mage > > "Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not > consent to be called > Zeus." > > Herakleitos of Ephesos >
