Abstract
IN a recent article in Social Scientist,' EMS Namboodiripad discusses a paper which I published many years ago, accusing me of treating Marx as an erudite scholar of political instead of as a theoretician of the revolutionary proletariat. I do not think that anyone who has even dipped into Capital, or the Theories of Surplus Value, could deny that whatever else he may have been, Marx was a scholar of political economy. He started from a philosophical position, and then found it necessary to study political economy and in doing so he made great original contributions to the subject. Marx himself certainly thought that political economy was a subject of the most urgent importance for a theoretician of the revolutionary proletariat. If the modern Marxists are not interested in political economy (or what is now-a-days called economics) and do not want to take the trouble to understand it, there does not seem to be any scope for discussing the subject with them; however, I will offer my interpretation of Marxian analysis for what it may worth.
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