[lbo-talk] Post-Marxist Era

[John Thornton]

James Heartfield wrote:
> andie wrote, apropos of Rakesh's challenges on Marx's critique of political 
> economy
>
> "You are mistaking me for someone who is interested in
> this question."
>
> Which is ok, but isn't that because andie wrote previously of
>
> "the validity of the propositions of
> historical materialism or of Marxian critiques of
> capitalism as sociological economic-political-moral
> theory. The theory is pretty much as true as ever." 

That quote of andie's above captures his post's flavor on the subject 
less well than these below which seem to capture the flavor much better.
Why he posted that he was uninterested so many times is not a tangent 
worth exploring either it would seem.
I did rather like the one line reply but brevity is has never been my 
strong point and I envy those who can say in one sentence what it seems 
to take me two paragraphs to state.

I won't be drawn into this. I don't think these are
the burning questions of our era or even to an
understanding of what is living and dead in Marx or
important to understanding capitalism. I don't even
think they are interesting questions. I think they are
scholastic tedium, epicycles on epicycles in a
framework we don't need.

AND

I also don't care to
debate this. You will not persuade me that I ought to
devote a lot of the time remaining to me on this earth

AND

So, if you are reading this as a way of saying I don't
want to talk about value theory because I think it is
a boring, irrelevant waste of time, and I don't want
to discuss at length why I think so, because it seems
pretty obvious to me, you're right. And if you think I
am a close-minded bigot on this subject, I don't care.

 Ars longa, vita brevis. Sorry.