Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 21:34:28 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: MT: Re: Post-Marxism and Paleo-Marxism


On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, James Lawler wrote:

> I have been thinking about how to respond to this posting by Justin a
> couple of weeks ago.  The problem is that I have written a long essay on
> this topic in which I argue that Marx was a market socialist, and want
> everyone to read it.  The essay will be published soon in a book entitled
> Market Socialism:  The Debate Among Socialists, by Routledge.  The book
> will be out in a month or so.  I am looking for people who would be able to
> review it for some publication they might have access to.  They would get a
> free copy.  Any takers?  Otherwise it's about $17.

I'll review it for Radical Philosophy Review. Please send me a copy.
Justin Schwartz, 75 E, Oakland Ave., Cols. OH 43201

> People probably know that there is a very interesting book by Stanley
> Moore, Marx Versus Markets (latest version 1993), in which Moore argues
> that in the Communist Manifesto advocates market socialism.  Moore is
> correct here, in my argument, but wrong when he says that Marx changed his
> mind about this in the Critique of the Gotha Program.  Marx didn't change
> his mind, because the Manifesto and the Critique are about two different
> things.
> 
> (I am still looking for people to participate in a panel on the Manifesto
> at the American Philosophical Association meeting in Chicago next May.) 

May when?

> 
--Justin