On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 01:48 PM, Tom Walker wrote: > > 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 ... >
Here Walker gives us a good example of the anti-materialist and plain wrong method of quoting Marx but making sure to do nothing to help understand political economic reality. Marx's concept of modes of production is a foundation of the science of historical materialism. You can try to get away from it, but a) it is real, and b) Marx insisted on it. Presumably all of us here know his letter to Joseph. Weydemeyer, March 5, 1852: “(1) The existence of classes is only bound up with particular historical phases in the development of production, (2) the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat, and (3) this dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.” (emphasis added) Marx did not expurgate his private letter. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35292): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35292 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] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
