Találtam ezt a nagyon érdekes cikket John Lanchester-től (aki egy író) a TEK Review-t böngészve. Ahogyan ők is kiemelik a szövegből:
"Marx doesn’t use the word ‘capitalism’. The
term never occurs in the finished first part of Das Kapital. (I checked
this by doing a word search and found it three times, every time an
apparent mistranslation or loose use of the German plural Kapitals – in
German he never talks of Kapitalismus.) Since he is widely, and
accurately, seen as capitalism’s greatest critic, this is quite an
omission. The terms he preferred were ‘political economy’ and ‘bourgeois
political economy’, which he saw as encompassing everything from
property rights to our contemporary idea of human rights to the very
conception of the independent autonomous individual. I think he didn’t
use the word ‘capitalism’ because that would have implied that
capitalism was one of a number of competing possible systems – and Marx
didn’t believe that. He didn’t think it was possible to move past
capitalism without a fundamental overturning of the existing social,
political and philosophical order."
Vagy eleve, amivel az egész szöveg indul:
"In trying to think what Marx would have made of the world today, we have
to begin by stressing that he was not an empiricist. He didn’t think
that you could gain access to the truth by gleaning bits of data from
experience, ‘data points’ as scientists call them, and then assembling a
picture of reality from the fragments you’ve accumulated."
Lanchester beszél erről egy előadásában is, amit itt (a szövegénél) meg lehet hallgatni. Ebben többek között pl. az empirizmus kérdéséről, így a modellezés problémáiról is beszél, kifejezetten a közgazdaságtanban.
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