Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 08:11:27 GMT
From: Chris Burford <cburford-AT-gn.apc.org>
Subject: M-TH: Sayer, Rubin and Mattick


Rakesh's return is welcome, not least for his readiness to 
read extensively and share an awareness of the literature.

My difficulties in getting the best out of these reports may
be me, may be Rakesh, or may be, I wonder, a certain sociological
slant to the approach which leaves a vagueness that may be 
inherent in the material, in our lack of certainty, or the approach 
itself.

Could I ask Rakesh therefore to expand a bit more, as 
explicitly as possible, on what looks like a major issue in  three
authors he recommends?   I am looking for what Lenin called lines 
of demarcation.

>>
D Sayer, like II Rubin before him, *seems* to understand
the law of value as an equilibriating mechanism, a mistake exposed in
Mattick's *Marxism: the last refuge of the bourgeoisie*; on the other hand.
<<

Chris Burford
London




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