[lbo-talk] Marxology (was "Why Marx is Right and Engels is Wrong", and once upon a time an interesting discussion about non-commodity-producing work)

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 17 04:37:06 PDT 2010


Mike Beggs wrote:


> [...]

What a great post.

For those who might otherwise not make it to the end, the upshot of Mike's post is the last graf:


> In other words, the labour theory of value was thus a step towards
> equilibrium theory and a real advance over vulgar supply-and-demand
> theory. But conceptualising demand and supply as _schedules_ opened
> the way to superseding vulgar labour-value theory in turn. When
> Marxists stick to the letter of Capital and quote Marx's dismissals of
> supply and demand as determining nothing, and think this holds against
> neoclassical conceptions of supply and demand, they are falling into
> anachronism. Even if the neoclassical vision is problematic, the fact
> remains that it's not what Marx was dismissing, and they therefore
> miss the opportunity to engage productively.

SA



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