Marxism and the facts of life. (letter)

Monthly Review | May 1, 1985| | Copyright

MARXISM AND THE FACTS OF LIFE

I found Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff's essay "The 1983 Nobel Prize in Economics: Neo-classical Economics and Marxism' to be misguided. It is misguided bacause into the conflict between Marxist and bourgeois "non-class' economics they introduce issues about the nature of truth and knowledge. It is also misguided because they treat certain facts of life as theoretical truths of Marxism.

When dealing with political economy and the nature of capitalism, it seems to me that Marxists needn't and shouldn't worry about the ...

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