What Marx's Comments on Aristotle and John Stuart Mill Reveal About His Critique of Political Economy
Marx was obviously very far from being a market socialist. But, that doesn't mean he equated markets and capitalism.
This is a lightly edited transcript of a talk I gave on Thursday at the Historical Materialism conference in London, as part of a panel on “Contesting Freedom, Equality and Value” that also included presentations by Tom Ladendorf, Luca Basso, and Emma Kauffmann.
The first section of Capital Vol. 1 is “Commodities and Money.” The second is “The Transforma…