[lbo-talk] The SMB in a socialist economy?

[wrobert at uci.edu]

As I have already noted, Althusser eventually came to the conclusion that
Marx never fully broke from his earlier problematic.  Although, I have to
say that I have no idea what Althusser you are referencing in this
conversation.  Could you fill me so that I could take a look?  Robert Wood


> Ted Winslow 
>
>
> Socialism" in turn is a process that makes possible "the full
> development of the individual" and the ultimate realization of the "end"
> of history - "the true realm of freedom" - where the meaning of "freedom"
> derives from an
> appropriation of Hegel's idea of it as "the idea of humanity" and the
> human "destiny", the idea endorsed by Engels in his 1877 Anti-Duhring
> elabaoration of the relation between "freedom" and "necessity". (Engels
> having failed to see and Marx having neglected to
>  point out to him that, at least according to Althusser's "reading", Marx
> had by then rejected these ideas.)
>
> ^^^^^^
> CB: However,  Althusser is probably mistaken on this point.
>
> Not only did Marx read all of _Anti-Duhring_,
> but in _Capital_  he develops a concept of
> humanism ,in Athusser's sense of that term,
> based in the concept of human labor, which
> Althusser fails to notice in the "mature" Marx.
> In Theories of Surplus Labor (mature Marx) Marx uses this
> concept of Necessity himself in one passage.
>
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