Page 42: “In the use-value of each commodity there is contained useful labour, i.e., productive labour of a definite kind, and exercised with a definite aim. Use-values cannot confront each other as commodities, unless the useful labour embodied in them is qualitatively different in each of them.”
Right. As we were discussing in the last post. [...]
Entries from March 2010
Capital Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 Section 2 Post 2
March 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Reesa’s health status
March 20th, 2010 · 13 Comments
For anyone wanting to keep up with my girlfriend’s health situation, the details are here.
Capital Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 Section 2 Post 1
March 10th, 2010 · 21 Comments
Section 2 is “The two-fold character of the labour embodied in commodities”
Page 41: “At first sight a commodity presented itself to us a complex of two things–use-value and exchange-value. Later on, we saw also that labour, too, possesses the same two-fold nature: for, so far as it finds expression in value, it does not possess [...]
How would Vlad do against Dumbledore?
March 8th, 2010 · 42 Comments
Um. I have no idea. Nor do I know why anyone would ask. But it’s happening, sort of. Del Ray Spectra is doing, uh, something arcane that involves a series of imaginary cage matches between various fictional characters.
I’ve been given two links: This one, which seems to be broken; and this one, which appears to [...]
Tags: Life
To Will: Class and anti-racism
March 7th, 2010 · 82 Comments
Inspired by this post.
I haven’t gotten involved in the “anti-racism” discussion, and, really, I’m still not. I am replying to my good friend Will Shetterly’s comments on it, because I am a Red, and we Reds have a tradition of saving our vitriol for those who come closest to agreeing with us. I am doing [...]
Capital Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 Section 1 Post 5
March 6th, 2010 · 24 Comments
Page 39: “We see then that that which determines the magnitude of the value of any article is the amount of labour socially necessary, or the labour-time socially necessary for its production. Each individual commodity, in this connexion, is to be considered as an average sample of its class. Commodities, therefore, in which equal quantities [...]
Another Tiassa Update
March 1st, 2010 · 159 Comments
After several conversations with Reesa, what I think is the last chunk of Tiassa has fallen into place well enough that I can see where I’m going. I think. Maybe. For the moment. So I believe I’m on track to finish it. I have noticed that, with each of the last several books, I have [...]