In it, he connects Marx’s analyses in Capital (and elsewhere) with Aristotle’s analyses of social and economic development in the Politics and Ethics, and with Aristotle’s broader metaphysics; shows how the idea of “value” as a social “form” is a fruitful aid to historical explanation (he adverts here to the work of G.E.M. de Ste. Croix, The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World, which shows how Marx’s framework explains the developments of ancient Greek society (this book has the good fortune of being both unabashedly Marxist and taken seriously by non-Marxist historians)); provides a clear and sensible interpretation of Marx’s often-misunderstood “dialectic”; and so on. ethikapolitika.org/2013/08/28/how-not-to-understand-marx/
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