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It seems to have reappeared @"Dexter"

Merged from 'Why would a god want people to argue for his existence?' Op from @"Purple Pond":

Merged from 'Challenging Comfort', OP from @"gnat":

We had 2 threads currently debating the definition of atheism, so I merged them. OP was from @"SnoringKitten":

Comments merged from other thread dealing with the same essay in the OP. OP fron @"Brillig" was:

Merged comment from @"boethius"

I meant vindicated by the standards of her detractors.

Life might not be worth living, but it could still be better.

Ask the giant face frying hole in the sky or the Cheetos packets in the Marianna trench, or the deforested areas expanding the floodplains, people who...

He is notoriously silent on the matter. Perhaps he thought that the people who bring about communism should decide what it looks like. Clearly he appr...

I don't mean to downplay the power of volunteer and not-for-profit work to make commons, just to say they remain relatively disempowered despite their...

Were there time (were time made... assholes) for more comprehensive analysis she'd probably have her claims vindicated. Assuming of course all the oth...

1 week is hardly enough. Especially considering how hard it is to establish sufficient evidence for 'beyond reasonable doubt' in cases like these. Con...

I don't think Marx had a solution, or viewed any one social movement or intervention as sufficient for the removal of capitalism. He took a very pragm...

Marx continues, drawing out this connection between the ability for commodities to count as each other and as their equivalence under the sortal 'are ...

Moving onto the next section: Subsection 2: The relative form of value. Subsubsection (a): (a.) The nature and import of this form The overall thrust ...

Have you visited Operation Clambake?

The list does little to change the plausibility of Ford's claims, which should have triggered a criminal investigation. The items in the list were in ...

I don't know what you mean. More words please.

It's pretty easy to forget that someone suffered a trauma at the hands of someone else, who in all probability was the person they accused, amid the i...

This isn't fair. I have so many male friends and I have been romantically involved with all of them!

So to go back to the question which spurred all the algebra: Does this hold: If (1) 1 coat is worth 1 pair of trousers (2) 1 yard of linen is worth 1 ...

Let's hope so. The flak machine is going into overdrive.

I don't know how these lizards can maintain the voice of righteous indignation and fairness while simultaneously implying 'You should be grateful that...

I need a freakin' drink.

Hearing then. It's what it looks like, so I forgot that it's not one and that there was no formal investigation appropriate for the crime...

I just got to the bit with the polygraph. Jesus fucking Christ these fucking lizards denied Ford's case the ability to admit some evidence before the ...

Hurrah!

It disturbs me to think that there are people watching it thinking she's got crocodile tears and the event itself doesn't matter because she wasn't 'p...

So I (think I) ironed out the difficulties with subtraction and a primitive ordering on C. The following axioms describe the structure, consider first...

After a few days of trial and error and searching I found a paper that deals with remaining part of the algebraic structure of commodities above - spe...

Mixing metaphors, I think Marx is really sensitive to how the material processes carry along/are driven by the abstractions. To me it feels like the k...

I'm stealing vocabulary from as many places as I need to try and convey the ideas. So yeah, I borrowed conditions of the possibility for that bit. The...

One last note before continuing on with the section on the relative form of value. As I showed before, the elementary form of value by itself can allo...

If I call the set of commodities C whose components are generated by (DC,+,*) and (CC,+,*) then glued together through + (C,+), this facilitates setti...

I think there's some additional work that needs to be done at this point, the details could be glossed over and you could understand Marx's value theo...

What would the exchange relations look like in a mode of production that satisfied the elementary form of value? This breaks down into two questions: ...

Yes.

The role property rights play in capital comes later. Just before the dolphins.

This is 'old ground' for the thread, but it is presented in a lot more detail (and with one of my misconceptions cleared up). SUBSECTION A: The Elemen...

Marx recaps the 'spectral objectivity' of value in commodities and sets up what is at stake in providing a theory of value. This paragraph is an elabo...

Going through section 2 again, I got some details about the elementary form of value wrong - symmetry of the trade relation is baked in from the start...

No worries!

I mean what are they? I don't understand if it's criticism; I never claimed that the 2008 crisis was brought about through the crash of a commodity ma...

I'm having a real hard time gauging what the intentions behind your posts in this thread are.

Marx recaps: commodities are only commodities only insofar as they have use and exchange values. Use values are always a product of concrete, social l...

Section 3 THE FORM OF VALUE OR EXCHANGE VALUE Marx has spent a lot of time setting up the notion of value as it occurs within commodities, and how it ...

Ironically enough you don't have to wait that long in volume 1 to get to parts dealing with the content of this post. It begins in chapter 3 with the ...

There's another 2 volumes left of the account frank. Marx doesn't restrict his view to commodities eventually. There's analysis of debt, speculation, ...

I'm unsure if you've actually been reading what I write. Lots of the posts I've made highlight that 'society' for Marx is a placeholder.