Lenin in Essen

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Feb 10 16:28:23 PST 2001


Rob Schaap wrote:


>A bit unfair, I think, Doug. You gotta have categories if you're gonna
>count stuff. And categories get constructed by someone, and for some
>reason.

Yes, of course. We've been over this territory lots of times, but I've yet to see that a Marxian reworking of the national income accounts, to take one example, has ever illuminated much of anything. Clever exercise (and everyone comes up with different numbers, no?), but that does it mean?

Doug



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