Date: 	Sat, 12 Sep 1998 12:56:22 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: AUT: Grundrisse/MBM


To put things in my rather pedestrian way, are we not talking about how
defensive working class struggles can become struggles to create a new
form of social labor? 

I am very interested in Jerry's suggestion that we study dialectics in
terms of the logic of Marx's *Capital*, yet it seems to me that unless the
working class thinks dialectically as well then we can't turn defensive
battles into revolutionary attempts to create new bases for society. 

Yet at the same time unless we can reconstruct the (dialectical?) logic of
*Capital*  and understand how its analysis of the economic law of motion
may demonstrate limits on the capacity of crises to reestablish always the
relation between the mass of surplus value and that required for further
accumulation, then it seems to me that the working class can never lose
its belief in the necessity or advantageousness of the existing social
relations (isn't this importance Marx attributes to value theory in the
famous letter to Kugelmann?)  If the system has no economic limits once
it "readjusts" itself,  then there is no reason for the working class to
think of its resistance dialectically. 

best, rakesh



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