Carrol Cox wrote:
>Jonathan Nitzan wrote:
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>>OK.
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>>Now, how much "labor performed" goes into the production of a car, a
>>modern drug or a capitalist movie? What units should we measure this
>>labor with? Marx came with the answer of "abstract labor."
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>If you ask Marx to answer question that (a) he didn't ask and that (b)
>are not worthwhile answering, then you will find that the answers he
>gives to the questions he _does_ ask fail to answer the questions that
>for reasons I don't understand have your knickers in a twist.
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>Marx asked, "How, under given historical conditions, is living human
>activity allocated?" It is more a "cultural" than an "economic"
>question. After all, Marx did not write a book entitled _Capitalist
>Economics_. Nor did he write a book entitled, _Political Economy_. He
>wrote a book subtitled _A Critique of Political Economy_, in which he
>dissolves from inside the pseudo-questions which "economists" try to
>answer. We are concerned with human social relations under capitalism,
>not with getting accurate figures on the GDP.
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>Carrol
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