Camus on Marx

[Monty Cantsin]

“Marx is the prophet of production and we are justified in thinking that on this precise point, and on no other, he ignored reality in favour of the system. He never ceased defending Ricardo, the economist of production in the manner of Manchester, against those who accused him of wanting production for production’s sake (‘he was absolutely right!' Marx exclaims) and of wanting it without any consideration for mankind.”

page 172 "The Rebel" Penguin books 1971 (based on a 1953 translation).

my question for anyone who can anwser is where is that quote of Marx's from....the problem with this book is none of the quotes are sourced and half the time he doesnt even tell you who said them thus you have to assume it's the person his talking about....

[coda]

Yeah, I see what you mean. I haven't come across anything that I remeber in Marx's writings, if it's a written quote.

But try his later letters to Engels, Capital Vol 2 and Theories of Surplus Value chap 10 & 21. Most of his references of Ricardo are there.

[STI]

Originally posted by [email protected] 17 2005, 07:25 PM
Yeah, I see what you mean. I haven't come across anything that I remeber in Marx's writings, if it's a written quote.

But try his later letters to Engels, Capital Vol 2 and Theories of Surplus Value chap 10 & 21. Most of his references of Ricardo are there.
Some nice, light reading.