A proposal for further extending Karl Marx's critique of political economy

Pradip Baksi

2022, 
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A proposal for further extending Karl Marx’s critique of political economy

Pradip Baksi

孔子
Confucius said:
There was one who did not have to do much
[無為 wúwéi] when ruling and he was Shun!

All he did was to sit courteously facing south!
―
孔子
Confucius,

論語
Lúnyǔ
[Edited Conversations Analects] 15.4 [insome versions 15. 5].

Σωκράτης

Socrates said:

[In] all states there is the same principle of justice, which is the interest of the government; and as the government must be supposed to have power, the only reasonable conclusion is, that everywhere there is one principle of justice, 

which is the interest of the stronger
Πλάτων
Plato,
πολιτεία
Politeia
De Republica / Republic
], I.339.

कौटयः
Kauṭilya wrote:
The sources of human livelihood are termed artha, wealth; the earth whichcontains the human beings and the resources for their sustenance is alsocalled artha, wealth. The discipline which deals with the means of acquiring and protecting that earth is the Arthaśāstra, the Science of Polity.
―
कौटयः
/Kauṭilya,
अथशाम ्
Arthaśāstra, Book XV, Chapter I.1-2.

Karl Marx wrote:
I examine the system of bourgeois economy in the following order: capital,landed property, wage-labour; the state, foreign trade, world market.
―
Karl Marx (1818-1883),
Zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie, Erstes Heft
[On the Critique of Political Economy, First Booklet](1859):Vorwort [Foreword], first sentence.