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Quotation from Karl Marx and the Close of His System by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
“I cannot help myself; I see here no explanation and reconciliation of a contradiction, but the bare contradiction itself”
Karl Marx and the Close of His System, Chapter III: The Question of the Contradiction, trans. Alice M. Macdonald (1898)
From Chapter III, after examining how the third volume of Capital explains prices that deviate from labour values; Böhm-Bawerk argues that the explanation abandons the law of value it was meant to rescue.
Citation: "I cannot help myself; I see here no explanation and reconciliation of a contradiction, but the bare contradiction itself" — Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Karl Marx and the Close of His System, Chapter III: The Question of the Contradiction, trans. Alice M. Macdonald (1898). (id bohm-bawerk-karl-marx-and-the-close-of-his-system-q2)
