anti-Ralph petition

[Max Sawicky]

Without carrying any brief for Barber (I took
his course in college, went to one or two classes,
and focused my intellectual energies on this babe
who sat next to me . . . ), in one respect capital
is more arrid than corporation.

Corporation speaks to not just any capital, but to
capital concentrated in the hands of huge business
enterprises.  The organizational dimension is not
trivial.

'Corporations' are about sociology and the practical
economics of industrial organization.  Capital is
more abstract.  Not exactly opposing concepts.

I might also note -- in fact I definitely will --
that the empirical study of corporations reveals
controlling motives other than profit maximization,
a shortcoming in Marx that dovetails with his
focus on "capital."

mbs

You've got to watch these folks that talk about "the corporation" 
rather than "capital." But Barber won't talk about capital, since to 
do so would be to participate in "the arid debate about capitalism 
and socialism."

Doug