Tuesday, January 17, 2012

My take on Marx when a lesser light will due

I note a certain ruffling over at smug wood gulch

The topic
Has davey graeberunched a hole inmarx

Subject the historical emergence of money and the history of barter


I submit throwing a harpoon at Karl is a tell tale act of hubris
Why not dig up some big got willing to play historic straw man

See
Davey wants to demonstrate a barter stage of exchange never existed

Now of course once you see how it's tricked out
Who could disagree

Any more then there was a stage one could call simple commodity production
In fact that's a far more controversial assertion eh ?


The upshot of the back and forth over at smugville

The placement of Karl on the opposite side of Davy and the historical record
Is not emphatically precise

-----such that there is a historical record
In as much as these are pre historical societies we're talking about--



My take
Then why drag Karl in ?

Obviously to win great fame as the killer of the great red whale