advances in Marxology

Peter Kosenko kosenko at netwood.net
Wed Aug 15 10:57:31 PDT 2001


Isn't this just "bionomics" stuff with a peculiar Marxoid slant?

Bionomics, according to Paulina Borsook ("Cyberselfish"), is a favorite economic ideology of Silicon Valley libertarian culture. Don't know a lot about it, but its fountainhead on the web is apparently here:

http://www.bionomics.org/

Peter Kosenko

---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Ian Murray" <seamus2001 at home.com> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:18:07 -0700


>
>> ABSTRACT:
>> Perhaps the most important contribution of CAPITAL is that that
>> Marx employs systematically in CAPITAL the method of dialectic
>> logic. In the viewpoint of modern sciences it is similarly a
>> genetic method in economics. But due to historical limitations,
>> the genetic structure of CAPITAL is not perfect, which leads to
>> some unrealistic conclusions eventually. Nevertheless, just like
>> the DNA structures in biology, the genetic structure of CAPITAL
>> has the intrinsic force to replicate and repair itself towards a
>> more vigorous and balanced structure that may harmonize with the
>> principles of modern economics. The author makes an attempt in
>> this paper to renovate the cell structure of CAPITAL by
>> imitating Marx's method strictly. Contrary to the subjective
>> prejudgment, the results are quite prospective.
>>
>> Keywords: Marxian Economics, Use Value, Genetic Imperfection,
>> Dialectic Logic
>==============
>Somebody who knows Philip Mirowski might want to send it to him for a
>laugh :-)
>
>Ian
>
>



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