I'm just a junior law prof at a fourth tier law school, unable to repress anyone except maybe some students.
However, I can observe that Marx would not say that value theory was an "eternal truth," even if he thought it was true, he thought it was true only of generalized, highly commoditized market societies. (A point insisted on by Lukacs, inter alia.)
I don't concede the point, and don't care to argue it; it strikes me as boring theology at this point. Time remains important and illuminated by Marx's thought, but not by the value debates. Those that think otherwise are free to believe and write as they like.
What is interesting to me here is that in the mid-1960s Soviet and American social scientists thought that time was a politically neutral subject -- a genuinely draw dropping assumption that reveals a depth of ignorance about Marxism that itself tells us a lot about the the nature of the cold war and what, in the end, was won or lost in that conflict.
--- tfast <tfast at yorku.ca> wrote:
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>
> > Time is after all the core of Marx's critique of
> > political economy -- not just in the refinement
> and
> > debate (please let it rest) about value theory, >
>
> Eternal truths, they never rest, but always resist
> repression. It is one of
> the great events of life that I was alive to see
> this debate so squarely won
> by the LTOV.
>
> Travis
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