Spine Check 5 - Marx before Marxism: Value, Price and Profit
Added 2020-11-25 11:00:07 +0000 UTCAndy and Sean are joined by Edwad @readcapital and Cordelia @cozyunoist, the confirmed superstars of #heinrichtwitter and co-hosts of the Reel Abstractions podcast to discuss Karl (Heinrich) Marx's 1865 address to the 1st International called 'Value, Price and Profit.'
As anti-Marxist communists steeped in Marxology, they help us confront this seemingly simple text for what it is - a fraction of Marx's total critique from a snapshot of time, and a Marx at his most Ricardian - which opens a conversation on: the difference between political economy and critical theory, the usefulness of Marx for communist theory, and the ambiguities that exist even in the mature theory we've inherited today.
This is a challenging episode (we stand in awe at the Reel Abstractions crew's grasp of the material) but well worth a listen.
Closing song: Green Day - Nice Guys Finish Last
Comments
Chomsky often criticized the use of "Marxist _____ (profession)" by saying that physicists don't call themselves Newtonian physicists or Einsteinian physicists. Now years later after having read Kapital and falling in like with Marx, I don't really get Chomsky's criticism because people saying they are a "Marxist " I see as just a shorthand for saying "I'm on the left, I'm a materialist and not in love with capitalism".
Erik~
2020-11-28 18:33:47 +0000 UTCcordelia is very mysterious
The Antifada
2020-11-25 19:54:56 +0000 UTCI don't really get why she says she's not a Marxist but what she described herself as instead is just a Marxist academic.
Matelda
2020-11-25 16:50:56 +0000 UTCI should not have tried to listen to this drunk and falling asleep. Fascinating but very hard to follow
Ryan Laursen
2020-11-25 12:17:56 +0000 UTC
