[lbo-talk] Thoughts on the Tea Party (and why the Left is Dead)

[C. G. Estabrook]

In his classic (so to speak) "The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World" 
(1982), G. E. M. de Ste. Croix shows Marx' affinity for Aristotle (and 
Thucydides) and finds that not surprising in the context of ancient Greek 
thought - Aristotle with an attitude indeed.

De Ste. Croix' innovation is to stress the "mode of surplus extraction," as 
distinguished from mode of production, as a tool of historical analysis.

On 4/22/10 8:10 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> Someone (whose name I forget) who was on the femecon-l list years ago
> suggested that Marx was Aristotle with an attitude.
>
> Carrol
> shag carpet bomb wrote:
>>
>>
>> Marx, on the other hand, has *some* passages that are rife with that sort
>> of analysis. But it's not because he draws a straight line. it's that he
>> was so freakin attached to aristotle, he never shook himself free of
>> Aristotle's Physus.
>>
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