To conclude with Ray, Marx's value theory, to witness von Bawerk or Mr. Joseph, H.W.B.
Joseph wrote a book on labor theory, value, and Marx, to witness von Bawerk or Joseph
carving up Marx is but a pedestrian pleasure. For these are both pedestrian writers who
are so pedestrian as to clutch at the plain meaning of words, not realizing that what
Marx really meant, Cole, has no necessary connection with what Marx undeniably said.
To witness Marx surrounded by his friends is, however, a joy of an entirely different order.
For it's really clear that none of them really knows what Marx really meant.
And even a considerable doubt as to what he was talking about,
there were hints that Marx himself did not know what he was doing.
In particular, there's no one to tell us what Marx thought he meant by value.