[lbo-talk] Dustup - final installment

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Jul 31 10:19:25 PDT 2008


Ted writes "these ideas provide the ontological and anthropological framework of all Marx's writings, early and late"

but all of your examples seem to be taken from the 1844 Manuscripts, when Marx was still using Hegelian terminology.

In Capital he distinguishes between

1. the "nature imposed necessity" (that man must rework natures gifts) which is a perennial problem

and

2. The alienated human relations in the fetishism of commodities, which is specific to capitalism

the earlier work tends to blur the difference between the two, as I think do you.



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