RE: RE: RE: thanks for the zillion references to Marx? (please check the list)

2000-11-30 Thread Mikalac Norman S NSSC
ok, i'll give google a try. norm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 4:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:5120] RE: RE: thanks for the zillion references to Marx? (please check the list) Don't buy Amazon

RE: RE: RE: thanks for the zillion references to Marx? (please check the list)

2000-11-30 Thread Mikalac Norman S NSSC
PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:5124] RE: RE: thanks for the zillion references to Marx? (please check the list) Norm, Try "Is Capitalism Sustainable" edited by Martin O'Connor [Guilford, 1994]still in paperback. Also, "Cyber-Marx" by Nick Dyer-Witheford [University of

RE: Re: RE: thanks for the zillion references to Marx? (please check the list)

2000-11-30 Thread Mikalac Norman S NSSC
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

Re: Re: RE: thanks for the zillion references to Marx?(please check the list)

2000-11-30 Thread Justin Schwartz
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"

RE: Re: Re: RE: thanks for the zillion references to Marx?(please check the list)

2000-11-30 Thread Forstater, Mathew
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

Re: Re: RE: thanks for the zillion references to Marx?(please check the list)

2000-11-30 Thread Justin Schwartz
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

Re: RE: RE: thanks for the zillion references to Marx? (please check the list)

2000-11-29 Thread Justin Schwartz
erback too. Kuhching on the 'ol cash register, Ian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mikalac Norman S NSSC Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 12:49 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [PEN-L:5118] RE: thanks for the zillion referenc

Re: Re: RE: thanks for the zillion references to Marx? (please check the list)

2000-11-29 Thread Justin Schwartz
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 _ Get

RE: Re: RE: thanks for the zillion references to Marx? (please check the list)

2000-11-29 Thread Forstater, Mathew
speaking of "classics," there is Roman Rosdolsky's THE MAKING OF MARX'S CAPITAL -Original Message- From: Colin Danby To: pen-l; p2 Sent: 11/29/00 4:44 PM Subject: [PEN-L:5132] Re: RE: thanks for the zillion references to Marx? (please check the list) There are some

Re: Re: Re: RE: thanks for the zillion references to Marx?(please check the list)

2000-11-29 Thread Carrol Cox
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