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> Matthias Wasser wrote:
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> > I'd like to thank everyone for their suggestions and explanations thus
> > far.
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> Just a note, because I'm falling further behind on this thread. I don't
> think that illustrating or demonstrating exploitation is a particularly
> important part of Marx's critique.There was a perfectly good socialist
> movement in England prior to Marx which based itselfon Ricardo's
> economicsl It really trivializes Marx's titanic effort of analysis to
> reduce to "Capitalism is unfair." Gee whiz! who'd a thunk it.
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> Carrol
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I agree 100%. My only interest here is in how the world actually works, so if value theory is just a moral critique masquerading as political economy, I don't want to waste my time on it. But if it is political economy I want to understand how it operates, whether it actually corresponds to reality, &c.