innumeracy

Max Sawicky sawicky at epinet.org
Sun Oct 11 21:00:40 PDT 1998



> Unfortunately, some Marxists can be as bad (if not worse). EK.
> Hunt told me
> the story of a grad student at UC-Riverside who encountered what at the
> time was considered to be Marx's mistake in the presentation of the
> so-called "transformation problem" in vol. III of CAPITAL. This student's
> response: it's not Marx's mistake; the problem was with bourgeois
> mathematics.

I guess if math can be bourgeois, then E=mc-squared can be sexist.

MBS



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