| This question <19|18> overall <27|29> Hans: <27|30>. |
| Question 40: Reproduce, in your own words, Marx's rebuttal that, despite the arguments asked for to in Question 37, exchange value seems to be something inherent to the commodity after all. |
| [28] Hans: Quick judgement? In response to [19], VanHalen sent me this to my private email address (please use in future the address Hans.Ehrbar@m.cc.utah.edu for any messages related to the class): |
| Prof. Ehrbar - Just for your information, I did read the text, two times in fact and tried to consult Marx for my interpretation. In your analysis you said that my answer was “doing it from scratch.” That seems a pretty quick judgement for someone who is entirely new to Marx, who tried their best to interpret the question and interpret the text from which the answer was to come from. I put a lot of though into the question. To say that my answer was doing it from scratch was almost an insult. I didn't write to complain like a baby but just for your information I tried the best I could and thought I was answering the question. |
| Reading the assigned few pages two times was obviously not enough. This is like reading the textbook for your Math class two times. You have to work through Marx step by step. And if you say that you “tried” to interpret the text, you indicate yourself that you know that you failed. You did use some of Marx's categories, scientific work is never entirely from scratch, but I did not see an inch of Marx's argumentation regarding this specific question in your submission. |
| I also believe that you put a lot of thought into the question. Your answer was quite good. You are not aware how good it is, but I can see it because you came to use an approach which is in some specific way similar to Marx's own, and which Bhaskar, a modern philosopher, argued, based on sophisticated reasoning, is necessary in social sciences. This is why you got a fairly good grade (which I gave you before I saw this complaint of yours). And what did you say about a baby? |
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