was there any question about brenner's notion of "competition" on the show today? i've begun reading the piece and in part it seems to echo part of his long (and smart) critique of the regulation school (but really: Aglietta) a few years back. he seems to bank on the notion of competition as a way of describing the historical evolution of economic fields--of the "progress" of forces of development--but doesn't, from what i can tell, say a whole lot about the tendency toward monopoly that subtends that. the latter depends on pre-validating and ante-validating labor and constant capital--this was andrew's point about the temporal dimension of accumulation, no?--through credit and monetary policy. i don't know how all this plays out in the argument as a whole, tho i wonder if others had similar questions. or could tell me if i'm wacked.
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