Re: the Communist Manifesto: critique

If I take AGF wrongly--if he too embraces a communist vision of human relations--then
it seems there is, from a communist view, a clear answer to why "capitalism"
is a useful construct. In Capital Marx tried to draw out the connections
between and consequences of the norms that govern social relationships
in a particular society, while at the same time recognizing that not all
was normative, that politics and control of state power determined much
of what happened (thus not simply economy but political economy). It was
in contrast to that system and its implicit norms centering on commodity
production and the norms that govern the valuation of commodities in exchange
that his communist vision emerges, again and again, in the pages of Capital.
That is why, in my view, that conceptualization of our enemy must remain
in force until we have a better one.

Paul

Andre Gunder Frank wrote:

I take it that those who reject the word "capitalism" also reject this
communist vision of how we could live together. What do they propose to
put in its place?

Paul
 

Paul takes it wrong/ly. there is no such inference among ''those''.
why in Paul?
agf

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