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capital reading group: May 2008
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May 25, 2008. James - eat the rich. May 23, 2008. Qian - Capital vs Labor. I am Qian, a Fourth-year Ph.D student of History at NYU. I am working on Modern Chinese intellectual history. My dissertation focuses on Chinese non-affiliated left-wing intellectuals (1920s-30s) in a socially-engaged fashion. Marx's Capital and other French Marxists' theories are the entries to configure what "the social" means in my thesis. I am leaving next week for China and stay there for two months. I will be in touch! I'm a...
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capital reading group: August 2009
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August 19, 2009. PART ONE: The Transformation of Surplus-Value into Profit, and of the Rate of Surplus-Value into the Rate of Profit. Key for this section:. 8220;An increase in the rate of profit always stems form a relative or absolute increase in the surplus value in relation to its cost of production, i.e. to the total capital advanced, or from a reduction in the difference between the rate of profit and the rate of surplus value. (237)”. CHAPTER ONE: Cost Price and Profit. 8220;basic law of capitalis...
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capital reading group: August 2008
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August 20, 2008. What do you think? I've only just now finished the gargantuan chapter fifteen, about a week and a half late, and while I don't think that it would be too difficult to catch up with the schedule and finish by the end of the first week of September, I've been thinking . . . . The David Harvey lectures. Have been unbelievably helpful far, and reading along with the lectures has been - based on a handful of experience - exactly the sort of thing I had in mind when starting this blog. That at...
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capital reading group: Mr. Capitalist
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July 13, 2009. Marx begins the final chapter of Volume II with two assumptions:. Marx discusses the hoard as a precondition. The capitalist hopes, in the end return capital to its pockets but is by no means guaranteed. And hence Marx's famous line. At this point one can introduce correctives. The state immediately comes to mind. But Marx has something else in mind: credit. His own question in the course of the chapter. It is as good an indicator as any that the status of these reproduction schemes ar...
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capital reading group: July 2009
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July 30, 2009. Real and Formal, again. Randomly found this old NLR article from Ben Fine:. I/109, May-June 1978. On the Origins of Capitalist Development Remarks". Eventually he reaches a discussion of relative and absolute surplus-value in the history of capital and makes a claim that takes some fucking guts:. In short, whilst the production of relative surplus-value can develop as soon as capitalist relations are established, it can only fully flower after effective. July 21, 2009. One aspect that Mose...
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capital reading group: Real and Formal, again
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July 30, 2009. Real and Formal, again. Randomly found this old NLR article from Ben Fine:. I/109, May-June 1978. On the Origins of Capitalist Development Remarks". Eventually he reaches a discussion of relative and absolute surplus-value in the history of capital and makes a claim that takes some fucking guts:. In short, whilst the production of relative surplus-value can develop as soon as capitalist relations are established, it can only fully flower after effective. August 19, 2009 at 12:33 AM. I will...
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capital reading group: June 2008
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June 25, 2008. Leaving aside the obvious significance of Marx actually defining capital in chapter four, I want to concentrate on what I see are some important theoretical arguments made in this section. Here are four. First, the formal distinction between C-M-C and M-C-M. As he states on page 249:. With that simple inversion, we go from a relatively stationary, independent process to one that is infinite and intensely socially dependent. What is Marx truly saying here? Now it is evident that the circula...
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capital reading group: June 2009
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June 28, 2009. Lying unsold on the shelves. Marx ends this chapter by saying "The circuit of productive capital is the form in which classical Political Economy examines the circular movement of industrial capital.". I interpreted this chapter as how individual, industrial capitalists view the circuit of capital. It is important to bear this in mind, as money takes on a different function than it did in the last chapter, which was viewed from the standpoint of circulation and the market. It is because, a...
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capital reading group: Vol II, Part Three via Secondary Literature
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July 21, 2009. Vol II, Part Three via Secondary Literature. Some will extrapolate and extend the modular form of these chapters into quantifiable, algebraic formulas, and temporarily side step the question of contradiction or crises (or even a dialectic) by displacing these outside of the operations of the balance between departments. In other words, these two chapters are taken up as providing a schematic model upon which to develop a fuller economic model of the capitalist economy. Thus the necessary a...
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capital reading group: May 2010
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May 3, 2010. Suns-Spurs Game One, test run at 10:00P EST. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I will try to follow the calendar as best as possible, but there are no rigid rules for postings, time-wise or content-wise. You can post later or on whatever you want, title your post, whatever. All that is asked is that after you post, you label the chapters in the "Labels" box at the bottom of the text box. The format should be:. VX - Ch.X. So chapter one of volume one will be:. V1 - Ch.1". V1 - C.1. V1 - C.10. Suns-...
