Read and reread and take seriously the first 125 pages of Volume II.
What he presents there is the invisible dynamic going on, however cluttered or messed up, in every society that we call capitalist.
Those pages are beautiful if you grasp what is going on.
Carrol
-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Doug Henwood Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 3:46 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org; lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org; lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] the Grundrisse and credit.
On Jan 15, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Angelus Novus wrote:
> Of course, Marx was a serious scholar, and any theoretical account of
capitalism has to have solid empirical evidence.
>
> But Carrol's point is that _Capital_ isn't a book about English
capitalism. It's a theoretical account of capitalism.
I agree with that. But it's not just about an abstraction. Thus all the gritty stuff. ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk