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>Two central themes of Marxist thought are prominent in the youthful works of Lenin. The first
> is the unity of capitalism’s social functioning throughout all its development - from merchant
> and usury capital to industrial capitalism.
This quote from Panzieri seems pretty intresting in relation to the CCRU idea that capitalism is a system of _anti_-markets.
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Curious where the CCRU comes into this. Only connection I can find between CCRU and the idea that capital is antimarket is the fact that I posted that Delanda quote and also happen to host a couple CCRU affiliated websites. But I’m not affiliated with them in any way.
Its really Braudel’s concept and then Delanda took it up for a moment a few years ago. And Delanda would probably argue that yes the fact that capital (not necessarily capitalism which he occasionally argues does not even exist) is antimarket would completely invalidate large chunks of marxism. I’d personally agree. It also invalidates larges chunks of neoclassical economics as well. In many ways accepting that one concept means recreating economics from scratch, or at least taking it back to Veblen and starting anew…
Comment by Abe @ 3/3/2005 1:51 am
Ah, well, I know very little about CCRU or Delanda, so I’m doubtless just wrong about the lineage if the anti-markets idea. I first came across the idea at k-punk, so I probably just assumed the CCRU connection from that. And it seems like the sort of socialist-baiting (in a good way) that CCRU, as I understand it, would be keen on. Thanks for the correction.
Comment by Tim @ 3/3/2005 10:57 am