On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 02:48 PM, Charlie wrote: > > I quoted the course announcement from https://anticapital0.wordpress.com/. > Much of the content on this website is signed by SA. So I compared the > announcement with SA's three questions at the top of this thread. His > questions show that he ignores the double nature of commodity-producing > labor: abstract and concrete as Marx termed it. So he gets himself into > conundrums about value, concluding that Marx was self-contradictory. I > could as well say, "Mr. Einstein, I don't understand the general theory of > relativity; it must be self-contradictory." > > The course announcement presumes to teach the basics of value. Now SA says > he is not a participant in the course. Okay. > > >
Now for Charlie-- a friend of mine, who maintains the anti-capital website, created a server on discord to discuss the fundamentals of Marx's analysis. I have nothing to do with the curricula, the study groups, the reading lists, or assessments made by the "school's" participants. Occasionally, I participate in one of the discussion groups assessing current or historically relevant class struggles. That's the hook Charlie hangs his bedraggled hat on, irrelevant as both hook and hat are. Now I wish Charlie would use his understanding of the double nature of commodity-producing labor, abstract and concrete, to untangled the conundrums I've gotten myself into regarding: 2) the intensity of the labor-process; how is it established; how it is measured; how the change in intensity impacts the rate and mass of value formation; is the manual laborer using a pick axe subject to a greater intensity, or less intensity, of the labor-process than the worker using an automatic boring machine or even a worker sitting in an air-conditioned office using remote video and radio technologies to control 2, 3 many boring machines? AND 3) Marx's statement in vol 3 that ascribes the exchange of commodities at their values occurs at a much "lower stage" than the stage at which commodities exchange at prices of production AND then Marx goes on to give examples of such exchanges occurring precisely in such modes where labor-power is not constituted as a commodity? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35068): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35068 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/111037083/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
