Sorry, typing error. For the last sentence of the Marx quotation, replace "conception" with "connection".
----- Original Message ----- From: Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> To: "lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Cc: Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 9:15 AM Subject: Re: the Grundrisse and credit.
Michael Pollak:
> And that's exactly
what all economists (including Marx) have done with the emergence of money
-- accepted a just so story.
Dude, are my emails going straight into your trash folder or something? CAPITAL DOES NOT CONTAIN A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE EMERGENCE OF MONEY. Marx wrote in the _Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy_:
"It would thus be impractical and wrong to arrange the economic categories in the order in which they were the determining factors in the course of history. Their order of sequence is rather determined by the relation which they bear to one another in modern bourgeois society, and which is the exact opposite of what seems to be their natural order or the order of their historical development. What we are interested in is not the place which economic relations occupy in the historical succession of different forms of society. Still less are we interested in the order of their succession 'in the idea' (Proudhon), which is but a hazy conception of the course of history. We are interested in their organic conception within modern bourgeois society."