Title: Marx's method [was: Brenner]
Gil wrote:... I've argued against the reverse fetish, involving the categorical rejection of theoretical results achieved within this framework on the ground that it is un or non or anti Marxist.
I responded:I don't see why this point is relevant, since I
I'm sorry this took so long, but maybe it was worth it.
Gil writes: Jim raises a number of interesting issues that go well beyond
the simple point I suggested re Marx's V. III transformation of commodity
values into prices of production. I react to some of these points below.
Those not
[Was: Transformation Tsurris]
Jim raises a number of interesting issues that go well beyond the simple
point I suggested re Marx's V. III transformation of commodity values into
prices of production. I react to some of these points below. Those not
interested in metatheoretical/pedagogical
Justin writes: Daniel Little, The Scientific Marx, an AM study of the
method of Capital. ... I don't like most Marx and Method work; they tend
to be full of windy disquisitions on dialectics that have no application to
any reasonable about the world, or even economic and political theory. ...
.
Little's book is excellent, and also short. --jks
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Subject: [PEN-L:14693] re: Marx's method
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 11:24:39 -0700
Justin writes: Daniel Little, The Scientific Marx, an AM study of the
method
At 06:43 PM 7/5/01 +, you wrote:
Do you think that _I_ am a reductionist of the bad sort?
no. I wasn't talking about you.
What is Daniel Little's take on the issue, i.e., Marx's method? at a
minimum, it seems that he could learn a lot from Ollman, or from Melvin
Rader's _Marx's
'digmatic'? If this isn't a word,
if should be, though I'm not sure
what it should mean.
mbs
Do you think that _I_ am a reductionist of the bad sort? Although it's
hardly worth arguing anymore, I have argued here and elsewhere that AM is
not exhausted by Roemer's and Elster's more digmatic
Can't talk about it now. Justice delayed is justice denied. Besides, the
judge wants me to move this stuff off my desk. --jks
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Subject: [PEN-L:14697] Re: Re: re: Marx's method
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 11:52:37
Max Sawicky wrote:
'digmatic'? If this isn't a word,
if should be, though I'm not sure
what it should mean.
http://www.digma.ch/jobs/opportun.html
Digmatic Electronic Caliper: 6,150mm. Made in Japan by Mitutoyo. Stainless
steel. Comfortable, smooth and easy to use. The Mitutoyo digmatic is our top
quality electronic caliper. Measures inside and outside in inches and
millimeters. Goes from inches to millimeters at a touch of a button Large
Curiously appropriate for AMs. I rather like it. Of course, dogmatic is
bad, but digmatic may be good. --jks
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Subject: [PEN-L:14701] Re: Re: re: Marx's method
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 15:22:53 -0400
Digmatic
can't one buy a digimatic from Ronco, the people who brought us the
Vegematic and the Bassamatic?
Digmatic Electronic Caliper: 6,150mm. Made in Japan by Mitutoyo. Stainless
steel. Comfortable, smooth and easy to use. The Mitutoyo digmatic is our top
quality electronic caliper. Measures inside
:14704] Re: Re: Re: Re: re: Marx's method
can't one buy a digimatic from Ronco, the people who brought us the
Vegematic and the Bassamatic?
Digmatic Electronic Caliper: 6,150mm. Made in Japan by Mitutoyo.
Stainless
steel. Comfortable, smooth and easy to use. The Mitutoyo digmatic is our
top
Bah. Electronic instruments. PR nerds.
Here's my contribution to the Lexicon:
Proposed Main Entry: dig·mat·ic
Pronunciation: dig-'ma-tik
Variant(s): also dig·mat·i·cal /-ti-kl/
Function: adjective
Date: 2001
1 : revealing hidden meaning
2 : characterized by or given to the use of digmatism a
: Marx's method
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 15:22:53 -0400
Digmatic Electronic Caliper: 6,150mm. Made in Japan by Mitutoyo. Stainless
steel. Comfortable, smooth and easy to use. The Mitutoyo digmatic is our top
quality electronic caliper. Measures inside and outside in inches and
millimeters. Goes from inches
The truly digmatic would discern the
macro foundations of micro.
mbs
Does the digmatic AM dig Micro while neglecting Macro? Yoshie
Curiously appropriate for AMs. I rather like it. Of course,
dogmatic is bad, but digmatic may be good. --jks
Like wow, Max, I can almost hear the beat of the bongos in the background as
you intone your cool poem, man. Truly digmatic.
The truly digmatic would discern the
macro foundations of micro.
mbs
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
Course Announcement:
In the Spring Semester 2001 I will be teaching a graduate
course on the internet about Marx's method. Since I
consider Roy Bhaskar's Dialectical Critical Realism to be the
best modern introduction to the method Marx was using, this
course will have Bhaskar's book
Gil Skilman writes of his paper on Marx's value theory:
I argue that the logical
structure runs from his treatment of usury and merchants' capital in
Chapters 36 and 20 of Volume III, to his treatment of interest
capital under the capitalist mode of production in Chapters 21-23 of
Volume III, to
Blair writes:
Gil Skillman writes of his paper on Marx's value theory:
I argue that the logical
structure runs from his treatment of usury and merchants' capital in
Chapters 36 and 20 of Volume III, to his treatment of interest
capital under the capitalist mode of production in Chapters
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