Monday, July 7, 2025

The “mature” Marx of Capital and Grundrisse

 Karl Marx, Capital, Volume One, Part II: The Transformation of Money and Capital CHAPTER FOUR: THE GENERAL FORMULA FOR CAPITAL: "The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews . . . "

GRUNDRISSE MUST READ!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiatic_mode_of_production#:~:text=The%20theory%20of%20the%20Asiatic%20mode%20of,theory%20has%20been%20described%20as%20%22%5Bthe%5D%20suggestion&text=that%20Asiatic%20societies%20were%20held%20in%20thrall,largely%20autarkic%20and%20generally%20undifferentiated%20village%20communities%22.

Marx distinguishes historical eras in terms of distinct predominant modes of production.[8] In the Preface of A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, he writes: “In broad outline, the Asiatic, ancient, feudal and modern bourgeois modes of production may be designated as epochs marking progress in the economic development of society.

Engels: (Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Vol. 3, p. 502.): "We regard economic conditions as the factor which ultimately determines historical development. But race is itself an economic factor".

 
CAPACITY FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPENDS ON RACE.

Capital, vol. 3, chapter 47: "The possibility is here presented for definite economic development taking place, depending, of course, upon favourable circumstances, inborn racial characteristics, etc. . . 

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