Ruthless Criticism (April 2013)
Von webmaster • Apr. 5th, 2013 • Kategorie: InternationalRuthless Criticism (April 2013):
Money – the “real community”
[This is a translation of an essay from „Das Geld: Von den vielgepriesenen Leistungen des schnöden Mammons“ by Wolfgang Möhl and Theo Wentzke [Munich: GegenStandpunkt Verlag, 2007].
This essay summarizes some basic remarks in „The National Budget: On the Economy of Political Domination“ from the Marxist journal GegenStandpunkt 4-97. It includes three supplements consisting of responses by the editors to critical letters about it.]
One does not have to explain money, but have it; for worldly modern people, this goes without saying. If there is anything to explain about money, then it is how best to get hold of as much of it as possible. This is fatal. Because those who take the inescapable compulsion to earn money as only encouragement to do so as successfully as possible, not only remain enmeshed in a system of constraints which impose not a few worries on them – they make the by no means unavoidable mistake of uncritically taking an affirmative position towards it. That doesn’t help with the hassle and stress of earning money, its few satisfying results, high prices, or the lack of money here and lots of wealth there. Those who don’t want to explain money shouldn’t complain about its unequal distribution. Vice versa: those who don’t just want to groan about the troubles money causes and its unfair distribution should explain money and the not at all rational or necessary mode of production that it puts into effect.
http://www.ruthlesscriticism.com/realcommunity.htm
Chapter 1. Money & Force:
The exclusionary power of property as thing
http://www.ruthlesscriticism.com/moneyandforce.htm
Chapter 2. Money & work:
The economic command power of property
http://www.ruthlesscriticism.com/moneyandwork.htm
Supplement 1:
“How can paper money be the measure of value?”
http://www.ruthlesscriticism.com/papermoney.htm
Supplement 2:
The measure of capitalist wealth: “Surplus labor-time”
http://www.ruthlesscriticism.com/surpluslabortime.htm
Supplement 3:
Basic remarks about money and force, currency and gold
http://www.ruthlesscriticism.com/currencygold.htm
cf:
On the Highly Praised Accomplishments of Filthy Lucre
[Translated from Wolfgang Möhl and Theo Wentzke, „Das Geld: Von den vielgepriesenen Leistungen des schnöden Mammons“, Munich:
GegenStandpunkt Verlag, 2007]
http://www.ruthlesscriticism.com/Filthy_Lucre.htm
cf:
Wolfgang Möhl / Theo Wentzke
Das Geld. Von den vielgepriesenen Leistungen des schnöden Mammons
http://www.gegenstandpunkt.com/vlg/geld/gsgeld_inhalt.htm
cf:
The National Budget:
On the Economy of Political Domination
[Translated from GegenStandpunkt 4-1997]
http://www.ruthlesscriticism.com/nationalbudget.htm
cf:
Der Haushalt
Von der Ökonomie der politischen Herrschaft / Kein Haushalt wie jeder andere
