[Marxism] Adam Smith

[Louis Proyect]

(from Dogan Gocmen. Dogan, I am not sure why this bounced. I assume you 
are using plain text, right?)

Louis Proyect schrieb:
 > After all, what better symbol of neoliberalism
 > is there besides Adam Smith?
 >
 > I shocked to discover that Arrighi views Adam Smith as a prophet of
 > markets, but not of capitalism. Not only that, what’s been happening in
 > China for the past 20 years ago is the development of markets rather
 > than capitalism. Boy, you learn something new every day.
Louis, just two remarks:

First, in my book: The Adam Smith Problem: Reconciling Human Nature and 
Society in 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments' and 'Wealth of Nations' 
(Tauris Academic Studies, 2007 ) I showed that Smtih can neither be used 
as a source or symbol of neoliberalism nor can he be seen as an 
unconditional champion of markets. In fakt I showed in my book that 
Smith envisages in longer term a society what we might call 
communalism/communism.

Second,Giovanni Arrighi is, in my view a market romantic. How can you 
separet capitalism from commodification and therefore from market. A 
market based society can only be capitalism.

Thanks for the information
Dogan