File spoon-archives/marx-engels.archive/marx-engels_1996/96-09-11.063, message 18


Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 16:55:23 -0600
From: kcampbel-AT-csf.colorado.edu (CyberMarx)
Subject: Re: First International


Hinrich writes:

>David, you've hit the jackpot with this chapter!

I assure you it was a completely random selection, Hinrich.

>Well, chapter 12 is on its way to Ken, and chapters 13 and 14 I hope will
>follow within a couple of weeks. So Capital volume 1 could be finished by
>May 1st. (?)

That's a great idea. I will try to make it so. Let's see if we can have a
completely 404 error free version of Capital. If you could each browse the
complete work once before May 1, that would be good. I see May 1 is a
Wednesday, which means I would have to have it ready on Tuesday -- which is
a horrible work day for me (most Tuesdays are). So maybe we could spend some
time browsing that weekend, collect up comments, and I'll try to fix them
all on Monday?

It would also be nice to actually proofread the damn thing. I'm sure it is
still full of little errors -- who has time to go through that kind of work?

Howevr, one woman wrote me sometime ago, asking to help. I suggested
proofreading would be helpful, and she replied:

    Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 23:21:10 GMT
    To: kcampbel-AT-csf.colorado.edu (CyberMarx)
    Subject: helping
    From: Cheryl/Detroit

    Ken, anything that is helpful -- if proof reading is what's needed to
    finish up parts of Capital, that is fine.  
    -- 
    Cheryl

I'll write her and ask if she has any time to devote toward that May Day
completion.

>"It is not our intention to consider, here, the way in which the laws,
>immanent in capitalist production, manifest themselves in the movements of
>individual masses of capital, where they assert themselves as coercive laws
>of competition, and are brought home to the mind and consciousness of the
>individual capitalist as the directing motives of his operations. But this
>much is clear; a scientific analysis of competition is not possible, before
>we have a conception of the inner nature of capital, just as the apparent
>motions of the heavenly bodies are not intelligible to any but him, who is
>acquainted with their real motions, motions which are not directly
>perceptible by the senses."

Great quote. And right on the money -- no pun intended.

Ken.



   

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