Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 13:25:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Gerald Levy <glevy-AT-pratt.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Marxism and Libertarianism


Justin Schwartz wrote:

> As to the state/economics debate. I guess a lot of Marxists who haven't
> given much thought to theory may be unreflective reductionists. There are
> enough of them on other Marxism lists.

Amen to that!!!

> But from Marx on reflective
> Marxists have taken the state very seriously as having real autonomy. I am
> quite unimpressed with Althusser, but think of Ralph Miliband or E.P.
> Thimpson, my own leading lights in Marxist studies.

Chris (S) and Justin: you should read _Value-Form and the State:
The Tendencies of Accumulation and the Determination of Economic Policy in
Capitalist Society_ by Geert Reuten and Michael Williams (London,
Routledge, 1989). Chris S -- with his obvious Hegelian tendencies -- will
especially like the book, I think. In the Reuten-Williams book, there is
an attempt to analyze the state-form within a systematic dialectical
presentation (see, especially, Parts 4-6).

Jerry



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