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It's an attack, among other things, on a certain sort
of individualism -- Bethamite egoism. The ide, as I
take it, that at the level of the wage contract, the
"rights of man," including egoism, prevail, but below
that, at the level of production and value creation,
there is exploitation that is masked by the
superficial freedom, voluntarines, and equality of a
self-interested agreement. I am sure that is what
Yoshie meant. Marx too. jks

--- Michael Dawson -PSU <mdawson at pdx.edu> wrote:
> Yoshie claims this classic passage from _Capital_ is
> an attack on
> individualism:
> 
> "a very Eden of the innate
> > >>rights of  man," where "alone rule Freedom,
> Equality, Property and
> > >>Bentham"
> 
> It's not.  It's a lampoon of capitalists' claims to
> represent the final
> triumph of freedom.  Again, big difference.
> 
> Althusser charged Marx with replicating Hegel's
> errors.  In order to do
> that, he had to willfully misread Marx.  Yoshie
> follows Althusser.
> 
> P.S.  For a supposed materialist, Mr. Althusser paid
> awfully little
> attention to concrete realities.
> 
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