Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:15:58 -0400 From: John Mage <jmage-AT-panix.com> Subject: Re: BHA: multi-leveled ontology Mervyn Hartwig wrote: > A tendency is by no means virtual. It's real, and though it may not > be actualized, sustains a concept of natural necessity (so that Marx > was quite right to speak of 'iron laws'). Marx did not. Lassalle did ('the iron law of wages'). Marx critiqued Lassalle. It is one of the most odd traditions, going all the way back to Alfred Marshall, that Marx is saddled by his critics with 'the iron law of wages' and the crude immiseration thesis. In the Critique of the Gotha Programme, Section 2, Marx demolished the supposed "iron law" and traced the phrase to Goethe's "great, eternal iron laws" (from "Das Göttliche"). As Marx pointed out, the use of the phrase immediately identifies a follower of Lassalle ("The word "iron" is a label by which the true believers recognize one another"). It was not an expression Marx liked. john mage --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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