>In message <p0621020dbeabd4b2b6e8@[192.168.1.100]>
>lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org writes:
>> There's a passage in which Marx describes competition as the force
>> that commands individual capitalists to "March! March!" Anyone know
>> where it is?
>
>There's this bit of the Grundrisse, which might be the bit you're thinking of:
>
>http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch08.htm
>
>*** (In competition this inner tendency of capital appears as a
>compulsion exercised over it by alien capital, which drives it
>forward beyond the correct proportion with a constant march, march!
That too! In fact, that's the one I remember.
It's hard to reconcile this with the Naderish view that there's not enough competition in the economy. Though maybe an ascetic like him enjoys being ordered to "March! march!"
Doug