The Political Economist and the Xxxxxx Sample Clauses

The Political Economist and the Xxxxxx. I will now consider the human element of political economy as a theory of subjectivity. It can be seen that the potential exists for a gap between the actual consciousness of the capitalists, and the theorisation of their interests by the political economists.28 The political economist is a specialist who functions as a scientist of the empirical interests of the capitalist. However, at times in the Manuscripts, Xxxx employs the terms ‘capitalist’ and ‘political economist’ somewhat interchangeably. Xxxx considers the theoretician as an expression of the practitioner, and likewise the theoretician is inextricably entwined with real practice. This is highlighted when he reveals that by referring to political economists, he really means “empirical businessmen”, for political economists “are the scientific exposition and existence of the former” [EW, p.260].29 27 If political economy takes as its principle the absence of needs, as Xxxx points out later in the Manuscripts, we might see even the existence of man as a pure luxury and the production of people as a public disaster (Xxxx Early Writings, p.363).