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...in order to challenge capitalism, it is necessary to challenge not only the whole notion of rights, how people think about rights and how people think about property, but also the material processes whereby surpluses are both created and appropriated by capital.
— Jan 21, 2018 11:45AM
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Matt
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After all, if capitalists can argue for the right to surplus-value on the grounds that they bring employment to laborers, why cannot laborers argue that they deserve surplus-value because without their efforts all the constant capital held by capitalists would be valueless?
— Jan 20, 2018 05:32AM
Matt
is on page 100 of 368
Marx’s essential ideological objective is to pinpoint the duplicity that lies at the heart of the bourgeois conception of freedom (much like he questioned Proudhon’s appeal to bourgeois conceptions of justice). The contrast between George Bush’s rhetoric of liberty and freedom and the reality of Guantanamo Bay is exactly what we should expect.
— Jan 14, 2018 06:39AM
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To find value in a commodity by just looking at a commodity is like trying to find gravity in a stone. It only exists in relations between commodities and only gets expressed materially in the contradictory and problematic form of the money commodity.
— Jan 09, 2018 06:01PM
