[lbo-talk] Keynes: Marx and the Koran

[Shane Mage]

Carl Remick wrote:
>
>  > "Schumpeter is just Marx with the adjectives changed" [Joan Robinson]
>
>Excellent!  I've mentioned at least a couple of times on the list that
>Schumpeter got it all backwards and that the phenomenon he described
>was actually "destructive creation."

But word order here means nothing.  Schumpeter was merely elaborating
on Marx's ultra-succinct characterization of technological progress
under capitalism:  "One capitalist kills many."

Shane Mage

"The reproach moved against [Ricardo], that he is unconcerned about
'human beings' and has an eye solely for the development of the
productive forces, whatever the cost in human beings and capital-values--
it is precisely that which is the most important thing about him." v.3 p.304