From: cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Carrol Cox)
Subject: Re: BHA: Reading list help
To: bhaskar-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 16:59:33 -0600 (CST)


Rakesh's advice may apply if one thinks of marxism as primarily a set
of economic analyses, but not if one sees it as primarily historical
and *political*. I would suggest either of Ellen Woods's most recent
books: *Democracy against Capitalism* or *The Pristine Culture of
Capitalism: A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States*.
Reading Marxist economics is a mostly fruitless task until one has
grasped its political force.

Carrol

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> >One of my students needs a good book or two giving a contemporary
> >introduction to marxism.
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> Geoffrey Kay's Economic Theory of the Working Class. London: Macmillan and
> New York: St Martin's Press, 1979. This book is dedicated to II Rubin and
> Bill Blake.
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