The Modern Crisis by Bookchin Murray;Price Andy;

Author:Bookchin, Murray;Price, Andy;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 2022-05-08T00:00:00+00:00

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1. Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia (London: New Left Books, 1974), 156.

2. Marx, like David Ricardo, played a major role in divesting economic theory of its moral content and surrounding it with a scientistic ambience even while he denounced capitalism for its brutality and egotism. Marx’s Capital is riddled with mixed messages that impute the all-presiding, seemingly “just” role to equivalence in the capitalist economy, particularly in the exchange of labor power for wages, while exhibiting a genuine revulsion for an economic system that reduces every human relationship to a cash nexus. Marx’s scorn for demands like “economic justice,” particularly a “just wage,” seems to be almost unknown to most Marxists these days, a scorn which would be laudable were it not the product of his own scientistic image of economics as the study of “the natural laws of capitalist production,” Karl Marx, Capital (New York: Modern Library, 1906), 13. For further discussion of the nature of justice, see Chapter V of The Ecology of Freedom (Palo Alto: Cheshire Books; 1982; revised edition with a new introduction, Oakland: AK Press, 2005.)

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