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 [...]
For anyone wanting to keep up with my girlfriend’s health situation, the details are here.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]