[Marxism] Adam Smith

[Isaac Curtis]

> Dogan Gocmen schrieb:
> >If you want to find out what neoliberalism is
> >please refer to what Marx and Engels says about
> >Malthus and his (social darwinist)population theory.
>
>
> There are at least 100 references to "Malthus" according to Google and
> www.marxists.org. Can you please narrow down my search?
>
>
> >Just the defence of free trade does not qualify
> >someone as an neoliberal least of all in the 18th
> >and 19th century.
>
>
> I would think that an 18th century defence of free trade is "liberal" not
> "neoliberal".
>
> Pance.

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On ¨neoliberalism,¨ I was completely confused until this reply by
Pance. Marx is useful in understanding all sorts of things, including
things that came after his time, but I definitely don´t think he´s
helpful in defining terms that postdate him. Malthus was not the same
as some of the other classic liberals - who had many differences among
themselves - but neoliberalism is a different animal.

On Arrighi, I saw him give a similar talk (and speak at great length
in q & a sessions at a number of other talks) at the conference in
honor of Gunder here at the University of Pittsburgh a month ago.
These peculiarities were not confined to him. Sinomania was in full
swing, extending to such absurd extremes that multiple people angrily
rebuked the left´s participation in protesting China on Darfur, Tibet,
etc. Frequent mention was made of ¨the Chinese model.¨ It appeared to
be the majority position.

Isaac

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Isaac Curtis
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of History
University of Pittsburgh

http://www.pitt.edu/~pitthist/graduate/Isaacbio.html