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Discussing Class with Doug Lain
The DietSoap podcast kicked off 2013 with a discussion between Doug Lain and myself about class. Click the picture below to be magically transported to the DietSoap site where you can hear all about it.
Law of Value 5: Contradiction
We are all painfully aware that modern society is full of social antagonisms. There’s poverty amidst great wealth, over-work alongside massive unemployment, banks taking away homes, gentrification, racial tensions, violence against women, labor struggles, environmental apartheid, police brutality, gang violence, hate groups, massive dislocations of populations, and lots of war. Marx was interested in explaining all of these antagonisms, but he doesn’t start his analysis with any of them. Continue reading
Posted in Econ 101-value profit exploitaiton, The Law of Value
Tagged capital, capitalism, class, crisis, Das Kapital, economics, Exploitation, karl marx, labor, labor theory of value, profit, surplus value, use, value, wage labor
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Law of Value 6 (or 5): Contradictions – a draft
Marx is always talking about contradictions in the law of value. But these aren’t logical contradictions like “round square” or “military intelligence”. They are contradictions inscribed into the very heart of the social relations of a capitalist society. Some prefer to use the word “antagonisms”. Continue reading
Posted in The Law of Value
Tagged capital, capitalism, class, crisis, economics, Exploitation, karl marx, labor theory of value, machines, marx, profit, surplus value, value, wage labor, worker
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Law of Value- Introduction
This video series will cover various topics in Marx’s theory of value: The difference between use-value, exchange value and value, the relation of supply, demand and price to value, abstract labor, exploitation, crisis, socially necessary labor time, and even what an understanding of value can tell us about changing the world. It is hoped that they can contribute to a better appreciation of the importance of value theory to radical movements today as they seek ideas with which to articulate their demands and strategies. Continue reading
Posted in The Law of Value
Tagged capitalism, class, contradition, crisis, economics, exchange, Exploitation, labor theory of value, market, marx, socialism, value
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Rethinking Marxism: Temporal Value Theory in a Moment of Crisis; Roundtable on the Economic Crisis
This is video from a roundtable on the economic crisis held during this year’s Rethinking Marxism conference in Amherst Mass. Each panelist’s presentation stands on its own so they need not be viewed in any specific order. A brief bio proceeds each video as well as my own short summary of their argument. This is merely to help viewers decide what to watch and to give some brief context for the uninitated. Continue reading
Left Forum ’09- Marx’s Capital and the Economic Crisis
I was quite fortunate to be invited to speak on a panel at the Left Forum this year (4-18-09) with some writers I greatly admire. Here I have posted the videos of all four speakers, the text to my portion, … Continue reading
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Tagged alan freeman, andrew kliman, brendan cooney, capital, class, crisis, falling rate of profit, marx, temporal single system interpretation, tssi, value
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