Mark says, "Neither resemble the hatchet job from the NYT." If anything, Wendy Brown is worse, because more sophisticated.
Wendy Brown has a 2015 article ( https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/marxism-for-tomorrow-wendy-brown/ ) in Dissent. Marx's argument, "Capital organizes everything in the modern world, and capital is derived from exploited labor." The first half of this teaching remains profound and important. Marx’s materialism was flawed and overstated ... The second half of this teaching—exploited labor as the source of all value—is less helpful today. And so Capital is in the past, a historical gem. This is the person whom Princeton University Press chose to write a foreword to Capital. Neoliberalism and financialization have brought new actors and powers onto the world stage; these require a different and more complex account of capital’s sources... I showed in The Hollow Colossus that neoliberalism and financialization arose after a fundamental contradiction of capital accumulation developed. They are more effects than causes. The labor theory of value is if anything more essential than ever to understand capitalism. Marx’s diagnosis of a world out of control is right, the progressive historiography is wrong, and the political ideal is indispensable, especially at this perilous historical juncture. We cannot abandon the dream of radical democracy... Not communism, not the liberation of labor. No, Marx, says Ms. Brown, had at best a dream of ... radical democracy. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#32743): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/32743 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/108835219/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
