The Chapter on Money pp115-153 ( Very Basic Notes) Part 2
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 […]
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 […]
Without making too much of it, this comment from the Introduction seems interesting: ‘In the succession of economic categories, as in any other historical, social science, it must not be […]
Here is our reading schedule….We are about to start the second reading. Introduction pp83-111 From Chapter on Money pp115-153 (End at page break line) pp153-186 (End at Circulation… subheading) pp186-218 […]
Origin stories Orthodox Marxism present a historical narrative in which capitalism developed within the womb of feudalism as part of a longer unfolding of history. Where does this come from […]
This section holds a guide to a key riddle of Marxism – does Marx have a method, if so what is it? This is an important question for two reasons: […]
‘Capital itself is the moving contradiction, [in] that it presses to reduce labour time to a minimum, while it posits labour time, on the other side, as sole measure and […]
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