[lbo-talk] Obama killing Pakistani civilians at 8 times Bush's rate

[Alan Rudy]

I don't know, and have never read, Postone but if he agrees with you I'd put
it rather differently.
Marx would never have sought to use the dialectical analysis of (abstract)
Value - an analysis very specific to the material and historical conditions
of capitalism - to understand other modes of production where wage labor,
the commodity form of need satisfaction and abstract Value were not
hegemonic.  This does, however, raise the >100 year old question of how to
analyze the partially capitalized sectors and partially modernized countries
existing alongside and trading with dominant and more fully capitalized
sectors and modernized countries.
The broader analytic orientation of the materialist conception of history
and the labor theory of (use- and exchange-)value (not Abstract Value) were,
however, at the foundation of all of work done on ancient, colonial and
ethnographic cases.
APR

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


>
> Where Postone, and I think actually Marx himself, differ from most
> Marxism, is in seeing that the Marxian dialectc is relevant only to the
> analysis of CAPITALISM, not to the undrstanding of human history as a
> whole.
>
> Carrol
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