I was thinking about this again. What you're saying should be true. And I think philosophy at its best is revelatory, inspiring, critical, creative an...
:lol: Would love to hear about that. But I don't think it's on topic here and it's detailed. Make a thread? Pretty please? Edit: to be clear this isn'...
Partial agreement. Largely because, I think, following the arguments changes how you think, and you get to internalise the ideas and their nuances and...
Yes. And I believe there's more of an emphasis on making claims and associations in pop philosophy/psychology than in philosophy. Unfortunately the th...
It is arrogant of me to suggest this. But I think self relation, or self modelling, is a good candidate for what would count as an answer. I'm not say...
@"green flag" was unbanned after a lovely email pointing out an error that we made. Allegedly they asked to be banned in the days of yore, and it woul...
Hey @"Raef Kandil" , welcome to the forum. A pointer - state your points, and link them with argument. When you're writing a post, try to make the dif...
Seems fair enough to me. It strikes me as disingenuous to "rescue" Heidegger's philosophy from Naziism, by invoking its ability to be used to other en...
Aye we both know what it is. I emphasised the normative belonging aspect, you emphasised the normative imposition aspect. If someone's right about wha...
Also @"Mikie". You can certainly read it that way. The interesting question, at least for me, is whether you have to. You can also read it as somethin...
After Harvey's lecture yesterday evening, I realised there's an implication of devaluation that I missed. The same "devaluation" occurs when a product...
Increasing the "rate of consumption" due to spectacles being transitory is a way of solving the "growth of consumption" required for the growth of cap...
A note that increasing productivity incurs new constant capital costs. Constant capital being production material and other fixed expenditures. Variab...
M-C-C-M; You only get profit if the labour time in the product is bigger than the labour time of the input. The price for a given amount of labour tim...
Same. I read your post and thought of analysing the logical structure of agglomerating historical event series together under a narrative. All the tho...
This is going to be a turbo long quote, but I think it's important for my understanding of Marx. I need to pick it apart. It is about what counts as p...
If workers save too much, capital stops. Saving is also an effective crisis fund for capital. Why? Because people would starve, labourers would die an...
It doesn't look like your argument construes things getting better as part of any narrative or ideology. Pinker's quote attributes the "successful way...
The transformation of land into landed property, and its dependence on capital and wage labour. (Marx I cannot forgive you for the length of that sent...
This is an exceptionally arrogant statement, but is it really that hard a question? Consciousness (self modifying embodiment?) is a precondition for t...
Yeah! I think Harvey referenced this too, that Marx towards the end of his life didn't find "productive labour" vs "unproductive labour" that useful a...
I wrote about this here actually. There's some issues regarding logistics. How does transport add to socially necessary labour time? Does it? But I th...
Oh I see. You're interpreting the first C as a composite of raw materials and labour, the - as the expenditure of labour power, and the second C as th...
That's interesting. M-C-C-M is given a directional connotation though right. A big deal's been made about money going the opposite way around the cycl...
This seems to be a relatively concise picture of of the relationship of exchange value to circulation and capital at this point in the book. It specif...
Think this really holds in Grundrisse: And in that regard mediates exchange, just as in M-C...P...C'-M'. Finally Marx shows the reciprocal dependence ...
Chapter on Capital An amazingly concise set up of the bourgeoise conception of freedom and how it's rooted in exchange. Two people are equal in exchan...
Please show me your buts when you can be arsed. Assuming you haven't already laid them bare. I also get that impression. There's a sleight of hand too...
I think this amounts to saying that circulation is more than a sequence of barter like trades, or direct exchanges. Money, instead, works as a standar...
A good reminder that the process by which prices are assigned to commodities piggybacks off extant social processes. In that regard price assignment i...
Me too. This was also a great highlight. I'm going to try and read it with the analogy: presupposition as "part of the foundation", positing as "the n...
The behaviour of money is ultimately the behaviour of exchange value. It's a material expression of exchange value. How exchange values behave dictate...
Ambassador you are spoiling me. More chapter 2 The remainder of chapter two splits into two themes. The first theme is the behaviour of money. We've a...
Likely. I will generally interpret someone telling me my perspective is "cold and brutal", without invitation or further comment, negatively. Perhaps ...
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