Peter Boettke on Marx. Spot on. And this is the point I was trying to make in less depth in my comment on the thread on this topic at BHL.... a thread that seems to have disappeared. In any case, this: Of course, there is no substitute for reading Marx himself -- as torturous as that might be at times. The key to reading Marx is to understand his philosophical system --- namely, the methodology of dialectic materialism, and what this implies both for his critique of utopian socialists and for his analysis of capitalism. Marxs analysis of capitalism is not independent of his picture of the socialist future --- it is instead a critique from that vantage point. It is also at the core of why Marxism is not a reform agenda, but a revolutionary agenda. Both his concepts of alienation and exploitation are tied closely to his picture of a world that transcends the existing social relations of production. Justice, in short, can only be served through transcendence of the private property order of commodity production. To achieve this, Marx conceived of a rationalization project that entailed the abolition of commodity production and the establishment of a unified plan. Rationalization would produce such a burst of productivity in the economic system that the division of labor could be abandoned as we become one with our true species being.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 14:49:03 +0000
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