On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 04:29 PM, Mark Baugher wrote: > > And this calls into question another quotation from Marx's 1859 Critique > of Political Economy: > > "At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of > society come into conflict with the existing relations of production > or—this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms—with the property > relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From > forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into > their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution."
And well it should. In my reading, Marx's 1859 preface was an *expurgated* version of the argument he had developed in the Grundrisse, notebooks 4 and 7. Mindful of the Prussian censors, what Marx left out of his summary was historical specificity (capital) and class struggle. Those are two big omissions. In my pop-up book, Marx's Fetters: a remedial reading ( https://econospeak.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-more-contradition-develops.html ) I reconstruct what Marx's uncensored argument might have been by interpellating pertinent passages from the Grundrisse. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35290): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35290 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/111104123/21656 -=-=- 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] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
