Comments on: Das Capital: The Primitive Accumulation http://anarchowhat.blogsome.com/2006/12/18/das-capital-the-primitive-accumulation/ yes, this is what I do for fun Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:43:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Nate http://anarchowhat.blogsome.com/2006/12/18/das-capital-the-primitive-accumulation/#comment-23 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 06:59:28 +0000 http://anarchowhat.blogsome.com/2006/12/18/das-capital-the-primitive-accumulation/#comment-23 Hey there, I forgot to mention, if you get a chance you might be interested in this collection of stuff from late in Althusser's life, Philosophy of the Encounter. He's all about the later Marx, though he doesn't deal w/ the Russia stuff unfortunately. The book's definitely got its flawed and flakey moments but there's some useful stuff in there too, I think, not least because he's a marxist who makes use of marx while still avoiding a lot of the dumb stuff. I don't know that it's a must read, but I dug it. happy new year! n8 Hey there, I forgot to mention, if you get a chance you might be interested in this collection of stuff from late in Althusser’s life, Philosophy of the Encounter. He’s all about the later Marx, though he doesn’t deal w/ the Russia stuff unfortunately. The book’s definitely got its flawed and flakey moments but there’s some useful stuff in there too, I think, not least because he’s a marxist who makes use of marx while still avoiding a lot of the dumb stuff. I don’t know that it’s a must read, but I dug it.
happy new year!
n8

]]> by: Administrator http://anarchowhat.blogsome.com/2006/12/18/das-capital-the-primitive-accumulation/#comment-17 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:08:19 +0000 http://anarchowhat.blogsome.com/2006/12/18/das-capital-the-primitive-accumulation/#comment-17 Man we are too in sync. I've been thinking about the bits on Russia and meaning to read them, and then your post comes along. I'll look into that stuff. It's weird cause marx got less retarded at the end of his life on this stuff, but then there's the social democracy stuff too. Man we are too in sync. I’ve been thinking about the bits on Russia and meaning to read them, and then your post comes along. I’ll look into that stuff. It’s weird cause marx got less retarded at the end of his life on this stuff, but then there’s the social democracy stuff too.

]]> by: Nate http://anarchowhat.blogsome.com/2006/12/18/das-capital-the-primitive-accumulation/#comment-15 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:01:06 +0000 http://anarchowhat.blogsome.com/2006/12/18/das-capital-the-primitive-accumulation/#comment-15 Wicked. The last bit is really succinct, capital as class struggle from the get go, or rather, the economic classes of capitalism imposed by struggle and resisted from their inception, which means there's moments when the other side tried and lost. I think there's stuff similar to this sensibility in some of the passages on machinery in v1. If you get a chance, you might check out the book on Russia I posted about recently. Marx is very clear that he doesn't see capitalism as a necessary stage for all parts of the world (he still isn't clear if it's necessary for some parts). He says at one point basically "all I'm saying is that capitalism requires for this to happen, not that capitalism is required." You also might be interested in Cleaver's commentaries on the primitive accumulation chapters, I think his view of this stuff is very similar to ours and I remember finding the commentary quite good. http://www.eco.utexas.edu/~hmcleave/357ksg.html take care, n8 Wicked. The last bit is really succinct, capital as class struggle from the get go, or rather, the economic classes of capitalism imposed by struggle and resisted from their inception, which means there’s moments when the other side tried and lost. I think there’s stuff similar to this sensibility in some of the passages on machinery in v1. If you get a chance, you might check out the book on Russia I posted about recently. Marx is very clear that he doesn’t see capitalism as a necessary stage for all parts of the world (he still isn’t clear if it’s necessary for some parts). He says at one point basically “all I’m saying is that capitalism requires for this to happen, not that capitalism is required.”

You also might be interested in Cleaver’s commentaries on the primitive accumulation chapters, I think his view of this stuff is very similar to ours and I remember finding the commentary quite good.
http://www.eco.utexas.edu/~hmcleave/357ksg.html

take care,
n8

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