tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post4367061619876696239..comments2024-03-29T03:19:09.227-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: YET ANOTHER INTERIM REPORTRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-43469741592249932952014-11-11T19:06:00.405-05:002014-11-11T19:06:00.405-05:00Okay I read it. Yes I think Marx is right in what ...Okay I read it. Yes I think Marx is right in what he says there, but I think the point needs to be pushed - and no doubt that passage reinforces the point - that one could reject the LTV (I don't), and still conclude that exploitation is occurring, no?<br /><br />I know many economists try to reject value theory in general, but that always strikes me an untenable position at best, and grossly ideological at worst.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08250295324149056708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-72439769309907816762014-11-11T18:28:11.949-05:002014-11-11T18:28:11.949-05:00I referenced Casino (with Robert Deniro) and Seinf...I referenced Casino (with Robert Deniro) and Seinfeld this week. Blank stares. You can imagine how confused people were when I brought up Woody Allen's Annie Hall! Alas, I don't even bother with Hitchcock.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08250295324149056708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-67102142758009516222014-11-11T17:57:54.904-05:002014-11-11T17:57:54.904-05:00Chris, I think that analysis is crucially importan...Chris, I think that analysis is crucially important. Try page 308[Aveling Moore translation] lines 6-9 for the single most profound senmtence in the entire book. The whole history of mankind is contained in that sentence! Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-10687060204635467962014-11-11T17:55:05.580-05:002014-11-11T17:55:05.580-05:00William Shatner indeed. Try Jean-Luc Picard for a...William Shatner indeed. Try Jean-Luc Picard for an equally blank stare!Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-21312157411625859952014-11-11T17:37:26.143-05:002014-11-11T17:37:26.143-05:00I'm beginning to think I shouldn't bother ...I'm beginning to think I shouldn't bother making cultural references during lectures. Recently earned blank stares: Janis Joplin, Marie Osmond, Lou Reed, and William Shatner.The Constablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00350215636435789942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-38270203917776744122014-11-11T17:22:29.682-05:002014-11-11T17:22:29.682-05:00Sadly, 99% of my students don't even know who ...Sadly, 99% of my students don't even know who Edward Snowden is! Let alone people born before 1996!<br /><br />I have another philosophical/economic question for you. I know you reject the LTV, but it strikes me as a borderline a priori truism that Marx's analysis of the working day is necessarily true, i.e., in order for profit to be made, the worker must spend some duration generating value for her labor power, and another part generating value for more than the reproduction of the means of productions, instruments of labor, and labor power.<br /><br />Is this not true if you reject the LTV, or is it still very much true even if you reject the LTV. Because one of my key projects has been to show that one doesn't have to be a Marxist to understand the nature of the working day, and recognize that even left-liberals to conservatives are skirting the exploitation inherently embedded in the most mundane work shift.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08250295324149056708noreply@blogger.com