The Philosopher's Stone

A Commentary on the Passing Scene by Robert Paul Wolff rwolff@afroam.umass.edu

Friday, September 29, 2023

MARX BOOK DAY TEN

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And so we come now to the famous mysterious puzzling section entitled “The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof.”  A word about M...
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Thursday, September 28, 2023

MORE TOMORROW

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 From time to time the real world does intrude on serious work.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

MARX BOOK DAY NINE

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The first chapter of Capital is so puzzling, so completely unlike anything that political economists had written before Marx – or indeed, ...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

MARX BOOK DAY EIGHT

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Capital opens: with these words:  “ The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, appears as “an immens...
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Monday, September 25, 2023

DIFFICULTIES

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I have been struggling for several days to continue with my book on Marx. The problem is not my Covid, which by now is pretty much asymptoma...
Saturday, September 23, 2023

COMPLICATED

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  Biden was almost my last choice for the nomination in 2020.  I am delighted that he won, undisturbed by his age (as you might expect), and...
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A BRIEF RESPONSE TO SOME COMMENTS

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Although I am not suffering serious symptoms from the Covid, I find myself without any energy so I have been unable to continue with my Marx...
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As I observed in one of my books, in politics I am an anarchist, in religion I am an atheist, and in economics I am a Marxist. I am also, rather more importantly, a husband, a father, a grandfather, and a violist.
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