The Legacy of Karl Marx: Or, the Inheritance We Dare Not Squander - Unpublished Manuscripts - William Appleman Williams Papers - Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries - 0 views
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That led him to ask the right questions. First: how does free enterprise capitalism work in practice? Second: what is the relationship between economic power and government policy? Third: what is the interrelationship between such economic power and the life of the mind - otherwise known as education and the more general public awareness and perception of reality? Fourth: what questions do and do not get asked within a capitalist society? Fifth: what will be the nature of the next new system?
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To honor his commitment to the dialectical process, I will offer relatively short commentaries on those questions so that we will have time to engage each other in dialogue. One. Marx built upon the foundation laid by Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo; but he transcended their explanation of the capitalist process
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Two. Marx once called the government of capitalist political economies little more than the executive committee of the high bourgeoisie.
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