Einstein on Marx

Fabian Balardini balardini at angelfire.com
Tue Jul 13 11:02:36 PDT 1999


(Thanks to Charles, r.cammer and annia for the information on labor lawyers).

I just got done re-reading Einstein's famous "Why Socialism" which can be found at:

http://proxy-mail.mailcity.lycos.com/bin/redirector.cgi?http://come.to/luta

and I was left wondering about Einstein's view on Marx theory of value and/or his views on Capital as pieces of scientific achievement. It is obvious that Einstein's views were Marxists as his analysis of capitalism shows (his discussion of the value of labor power, his views on crisis, etc) but I am interested in knowing whether there are other writings in which he explicitly discusses Marx or Marx's theory of value from a scientific point of view.

I leave you with Einstein's view of economics: "But historic tradition is, so to speak, of yesterday; nowhere have we really overcome what Thorstein Veblen called "the predatory phase" of human development. The observable economic facts belong to that phase and even such laws as we can derive from them are not applicable to other phases. Since the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development, economic science in its present state can throw little light on the socialist society of the future."

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