Lefty Despair and Re: More Michael Parenti Re: Deserving Americans

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Sep 23 08:58:02 PDT 2002


Dennis Perrin wrote:


>Sorry, sounds religious to me. Oh grand and mighty Marx, you have shown us
>the way!

Doesn't have to be. No one has come close to Marx in analyzing the workings of capitalism as a broad social system. Even the stuff about finance in vol. 3 of Capital and Theories of Surplus Value, though mostly unfinished and dealing with a relatively unevolved financial system, are brilliant. Of course, people treat his writings as scripture sometimes, in a very mechnical and braindead way. But it doesn't have to be.

Doug



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