On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 01:22 AM, Mark Baugher wrote: > > Charlie wrote: > >> Not the best recommendation for "The School of Marxist Fundamentals: >> Economics," which advertises that it teaches "both Capital Vol. 1 and >> Value, Price, and Profit. The first mentioned book will successively >> set-up and transcend economic categories, moving from the category of >> commodity to exchange-value to value to surplus-value to capital and the >> limits to which capital runs up against. > > What does this have to do with the three points S.Artesian raised? > >
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. In addition, Walker tells us: "By 'socially necessary [labor time],' Marx meant necessary to the expanded reproduction of capital." Nonsense. Marx's Capital I makes no distinction between simple and expanded reproduction. He does not need it to investigate the value of a commodity. Reproduction comes up in volume two. It's a ballet of elephants, folks. Perhaps amusing, definitely not graceful. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35062): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35062 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] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
