ok, i'll give google a try.
norm
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Don't buy Amazon
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Norm,
Try "Is Capitalism Sustainable" edited by Martin O'Connor [Guilford,
1994]still in paperback. Also, "Cyber-Marx" by Nick Dyer-Witheford
[University of
for the zillion references to Marx?
(please check the list)
There are some fine books in this group, but it's not a coherent list --
looks like it was thrown together by someone with a vague idea that
Marxism, socialism, communism etc. were all the same thing. If you are
looking for readings _on Marx_, less
The best Marx bio is still David McLellan's Karl Marx. Franz Mehring's older
book is good on Marx as a political activist. The new bio by Wheen is
interesting but a bit lightweight.
I don't care for the Wolff Resnick volume. WR have a silly postmodernist
or post-ALthusserian "antiempiricist"
anks for the zillion references to
Marx?(please check the list)
The best Marx bio is still David McLellan's Karl Marx. Franz Mehring's
older
book is good on Marx as a political activist. The new bio by Wheen is
interesting but a bit lightweight.
I don't care for the Wolff Resnick vol
Let me associate myself with Mat's comments, and reaffirm that
empiricism is *not* the same thing as using and respecting data and
taking history seriously. Shallow dichotomies like pomo-empiricist are
barriers to understanding.
Justin backpedals to say he used "empiricist ... in the sense of
I don't "backpedal": I know a bit about philosophical empiricism, and can
also distinguish between what Hume called the strict and philosophical and
the loose and vulgar meanings of the term. "Cares" is not intended to denote
some inner mental state but to reflect the observable fact that Marx
Don't buy Amazon. Buy used. You can search and
order over the Web and save a ton. Plus Amazon
is currently fighting a unionization drive so
they're on the shit list.
Try searching on Alibris, Powell's, or "used books"
with Google. (www.google.com)
mbs
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i'm thinking of buying the socialist-capitalist list of Amazon books below
for starters.
trying
erback too.
Kuhching on the 'ol cash register,
Ian
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There are some fine books in this group, but it's not a coherent list --
looks like it was thrown together by someone with a vague idea that
Marxism, socialism, communism etc. were all the same thing. If you are
looking for readings _on Marx_, less than half of these would really be
appropriate.
While we're on the subject let me plug one neglected classic: I.I.
Rubin's _Essays on Marx's Theory of Value_.
A great book, maybe The Great Book, on Value Theory, but not an introductory
one. --jks
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Get
speaking of "classics," there is Roman Rosdolsky's THE MAKING OF MARX'S CAPITAL
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Subject: [PEN-L:5132] Re: RE: thanks for the zillion references to Marx? (please
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There are some
Justin Schwartz wrote:
While we're on the subject let me plug one neglected classic: I.I.
Rubin's _Essays on Marx's Theory of Value_.
A great book, maybe The Great Book, on Value Theory, but not an introductory
one. --jks
But the introduction by Fredy Perlman perhaps would speak to
If it's introductions we're looking for Tucker's _Marx-Engels Reader_ is
arguably the classic; of course it's mainly original writings but if
Norm can buy it used it'll be a lot cheaper and easier than printing all
that stuff off the web, plus there's the benefit of an intelligent
selection.
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