PP 186-193 Occupy and ongoing conversations about finance
There are two points in the first pages of this week’s reading that struck me as useful in understanding and responding to some (of what I would say, were misguided) […]
There are two points in the first pages of this week’s reading that struck me as useful in understanding and responding to some (of what I would say, were misguided) […]
Hey folks, I said I would post notes for this section, but I don’t have much to add to what has already been posted. This stuff on money makes my […]
P186-187 Circulation of money determined by circulation of commodities determined by the nature of the overall mode of production Money plays two key roles : as […]
On the whole what we may call critiques of the ‘Market’ are most often examples of a ‘foreshortened’ critique of capitalist social relations.[i] That is rather than attempting to understand […]
Sergio Bologna’s analysis of Marx’s journalism concerning the crisis of the 1850s, which provides some good context for the arguments of the Grundrisse, and Marx’s examination of the money form […]
This section contains some excellent content. The section opens with a continuation of the critique of theories of time-chits as a way of organising production otherwise to capital. The category […]
What is Marx’s counter to Darimon? He ridicules Darimon’s demand that all commodities should function as money ‘Let the pope remain, but make everybody pope’ and asks ‘The real […]
In a panel organised by the group Platypus and entitled Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis David Harvey ( at about 1hour 55 minutes) makes an argument against Marx on the […]
The chapter starts with a critique of Alfred Darimon’s De la reforme des banques. Darimon is identified in the footnotes as a ‘follower’ of Proudhon and first and opponent […]
Does any one know what ‘discounting’ means in the sense that Darimon and Marx are using it? I am looking at my Penguin Dictionary of Economics and it is not making things […]