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On Labor as the Substance of Value
(This is a draft. All comments welcome. Citations and footnotes are incomplete.) Labor as Substance of Value Once Marx has established that value is a property intrinsic to commodities he immediately goes on to ask what this value is and … Continue reading
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Critique of Political Economy: C. Theories of the Medium of Circulation and Money – notes
C. Theories of the Medium of Circulation and MoneyAt the end of Chapter 1: Commodities we had “A:Notes on the History of the Theory of Value”. At the end of Chapter 2 part 1: The Measure of Value we had … Continue reading
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The Critique of Political Economy; chapter 1 notes
Summary of Critique of Political Economy Chapter 1 by Karl Marx (Chapter 2 to follow in a future post.) Written before Das Capital, the Critique of Political Economy covers much of the theoretical ground of the opening chapters of Capital … Continue reading
Law of Value 10: Price and Value
[This is video 10 in my ongoing Law of Value series. It’s a controversial topic… so, let’s see what folks think of my attempt…] Here’s a yo-yo. Let’s say it took an hour to make, parts and everything. And here’s … Continue reading
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Tagged demand, economics, marx, money, price, prices of production, profit, supply, theory, transformation problem, value
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Value-Price- a draft script
This is a draft of the script for my next video “Value and Price”. Any feedback is helpful. The footnotes have yet to be numerically linked to the main text. Intro There is a lot of confusion over Marx’s theory … Continue reading
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Tagged cost-price, marx, money, price, prices of production, profit, SNLT, transformation problem, value
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Value and Price Q&A
I have been looking forward to finally putting together a script for a video on Value and Price. As a preparation for that task I’ve written the following: an attempted summary of my understanding the topic. The text is peppered … Continue reading
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Tagged antiques, art, average, bohm-bawerk, commodity, critique, demand, economics, labor, market, marx, modal, money, monopoly, mud pie, price, rate of profit, SNLT, supply, utility, value
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further draft of subject-object
Perhaps it borders on narcissism to think that the world is interested in following the successive redrafting of the scripts to my videos. But I suppose there are worse things to clutter the internet with. I do always find feedback … Continue reading
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Tagged abstraction, capitalism, crisis, demand, economics, fetishism, labor theory of value, marginalism, marx, materialism, object, price, socialism, subject, subjectivism, value
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Law of Value 4: Value
…And this is where any social theory must begin: with a study of the productive activity of people as they work to create the world they live in. Not only is this the best starting place for an analysis of society, it is also the best starting point for a radical social theory whose aim is to investigate the possibility of changing the world. If we realize that human society is not the result of some natural or divine eternal logic but merely the creation of our own labor then that means that we have the power to mold and shape that society as we see fit. In a capitalist society these creative powers take the form of an external world of value and capital that acts back upon society, shaping it against the will of its creators. Yet, in the end the world of capital is nothing but the product of our own creation. If we truly want to change the world it is not up to nature, God, fate or experts, but up to us. This is the radical challenge of the law of value. Continue reading
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