[Marxism] "Marxist Economic Theory" - Ernest Mandel

[Mike Friedman]

Even if, as Richard says, Mande's work is more an effort to provide an
empirical historical and social backbone to MET, in passing he explains
basic concepts of Marxist Economics, and I found that useful.

Mike


Erik:
From: Erik Toren <ectoren at sbcglobal.net>
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I do have the mind to start reading Das Kapital. As a matter of fact, I
was part of a group at UT-Pan American that started the Marxist Reading
Group (http://myspace.com/marxistreadinggroup) in order to start reading
Das Kapital. Unfortunately, we haven't quite gelled and the project has
stalled. I started re-reading E. Mandel's book because I found it
accessible.

Thanks to all compas for their input.

por el socialismo,
Erik Toren

Ed George wrote:
> As it's what I'm doing myself, I'm duty bound to suggest reading
> Marx's Capital itself: before reading what people - which includes
> Mandel, Brenner, Mattick and all - say Marx said, I think one should
> start with what Marx did say. My only regret with regards to this
> thought is that it took me 25 years to realise it.
>