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#feelingunwell #capitalism

#Pascal #war #anti-war

Το #εμπόρευμα είναι α) αξία χρήσης β) ανταλλακτική αξία (αναλογια με ενα αλλο εμπορευμα: #χρημα). Το εμπόρευμα ως αξία χρήσης είναι ο σκοπος υπαρξης του #χρηματος και του #κεφαλαιου.

“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.”
― Zora Neale #Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.”
― Zora Neale #Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

“#Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility. #Life, as it is, does not frighten me, since I have made my peace with the universe as I find it, and bow to its laws. The ever-sleepless sea in its bed, crying out “how long?” to Time; million-formed and never motionless flame; the contemplation of these two aspects alone, affords me sufficient food for ten spans of my expected lifetime. It seems to me that organized creeds are collections of words around a wish. I feel no need for such. However, I would not, by word or deed, attempt to deprive another of the consolation it affords. It is simply not for me. Somebody else may have my rapturous glance at the archangels. The springing of the yellow line of morning out of the misty deep of dawn, is glory enough for me. I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms. When the consciousness we know as life ceases, I know that I shall still be part and parcel of the world. I was a part before the sun rolled into shape and burst forth in the glory of change. I was, when the earth was hurled out from its fiery rim. I shall return with the earth to Father Sun, and still exist in substance when the sun has lost its fire, and disintegrated into infinity to perhaps become a part of the whirling rubble of space. Why fear? The stuff of my being is #matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance.”
― Zora Neale #Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

“The #present was an egg laid by the #past that had the #future inside its shell.”
― Zora Neale #Hurston

“#Gods always behave like the people who make them.”
― Zora Neale #Hurston, Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

#communism/#Marx: collective regulation of production by freely associated independent producers

Η αγία οικογένεια (Άννα Β.)

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“You say some Greek philosophers could dazzle their audiences
with their riddles? That does not interest me at all. Bring
more wine instead and play your lute; your changes in tones
remind me of the wind that rushes past and disappears,
just like us.” —Omar #Khayyám

“Μην αμφιβάλλεις
γι αυτόν
που σου λέει
πως φοβάται

να φοβάσαι όμως
αυτόν
που σου λέει
πως δεν αμφιβάλλει

- Erich #Fried, “#Αμφιβολία και #Φόβος” —Erich Fried

And the times become ripe for the emergence of one of the
most influential abstractions of the modern age—the notion that the
relations between men as mutually interdependent producers of
commodities somehow lie at the basis of all their other social
relations. The Classical labour theory of value was closely associated
with this notion. If we regard society as consisting in essence of an
association of separate producers who live by mutually exchanging the
products of their different labours, we are likely to come to think of
the exchange of these products as being in essence the exchange /of
quantities of social labour. /And if we begin thinking in these terms,
we may well eventually conclude that the /value /of a commodity—i.e.,
its power of purchasing or commanding other commodities in exchange-is a
quality conferred upon it by virtue of the fact that a certain portion of
the labour force of society has been allocated to its production.
[Ronald L. #Meek - Studies in the #Labour Theory of #Value (1956; second edition 1973), p. 39]

Using surplus value, one of the key
concepts of /Capital/, as the central organizing principle of Marx’s
analysis of capitalism, we can think of the three volumes of /Capital
/as dealing with, respectively,^16

* the generation and accumulation of surplus value (Volume I);

* the realization of surplus value (Volume II);

* the distribution of surplus value (Volume III).

[...]

In this chapter, we begin the study of Marx’s political economy of
capitalism by working through the details of the argument in Volume 1 of
/Capital /(Marx, 1992). We know from the discussion in the previous
chapter that Volume 1 of Capital (Marx, 1992) is devoted to a study of
the process of production of capital. Using the key concept of surplus
value, we can restate the object of investigation in Volume 1 as the
/generation /and /accumulation /of surplus value. To understand capital,
one needs to understand surplus value – because capital generates and is
generated by surplus value. But, to understand surplus value, one needs
to first understand value; and to understand value, one needs to
understand the commodity. That is the reason why the analysis in Volume 1
of /Capital /begins with the commodity, which Marx identifes as the
‘elementary form’ of wealth in capitalist societies. [DB-LC, 48]

[Deepankar #Basu - The Logic of #Capital: An Introduction to #Marxist #Economic Theory](https://www.google.gr/books/edition/The_Logic_of_Capital/E_A-EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover)

(https://people.umass.edu/dbasu/Papers/IITG-21Feb-2022.pdf)

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Lewis #Hine
Steelworker standing on beam
1931
© George Eastman House

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