1698: Mykola Ziber: Marxist Rationalism, Materialist Economics, and Ukrainian Freethought
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2026/06/06
“However far theory proper is concerned, Marx’s method is the deductive method of the whole English school, and its faults, like its merits, are shared by the best theoretical economists.”
“Law is nothing other than a set of coercive norms expressing the typical case of the occurrence of economic phenomena, a set whose purpose is to prevent and suppress deviations from the average course of things.”
“Human life is by no means identical with animal life, because the reproduction of man conditions also the reproduction of his food.”
“In the example proposed by Mr. Zhukovsky, what is valued is not the work of the horse, but the work of the driver, the cabman, the groom, the work of feeding the horse, and the work of replacing what is used up by the employment of the carriage.”
“Otherwise one might think, as Mr. Zhukovsky almost asserts, that the forces of nature themselves have value, or even exchange value, paid for in exchange — not only in the form of rent, but also as the labour of nature.”
“This point of view is not worth mentioning.”
“The notion that the ‘free forces of nature’ can be a source of value is the same physiocracy, only expressed still more abstractly and formally.”
“Among the South Slavs this is completely different. Here there is no trace of slavish subordination to the householder, nor even of excessively far-reaching patriarchal authority on his part.”
“Complete equality with respect to communal property, as in a joint-stock company, and reasonable subordination to the managing leadership of the householder, together with the right of discussion and decision by majority vote — such is the essence of the relations.”
“Property is not that of one person, but of all members of the family collectively — present, past, and future.”
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