Ruthless Criticism (Autumn 2013)
Von webmaster • Sep. 13th, 2013 • Kategorie: InternationalRuthless Criticism (Autumn 2013):
1. Listen here to a radio interview with Joseph Patrick from
GegenStandpunkt
broadcast Sept 6 on KDVS 90.3 FM in Davis, California
hosted by Richard Estes of “Speaking in Tongues”
http://www.ruthlesscriticism.com/
http://www.kdvs.org/show-info/2580?date=2013-09-06
2. We are organizing a class and discussion group in Oakland CA for
fall 2013:
Lessons about work and wealth from Karl Marx’s Capital
Capitalism, which Marx analyzed and criticized in its emergent phase,
has changed in some ways since then, but not in anything really
essential: the growth of money is still the goal commanding labor;
working people are still a cost factor, thus the negative variable of
the company’s goal; the productive power of labor, the greatest
source of material wealth, is still developed solely for the goal of
saving money on wages and laying off employees – hence making
workers poorer.
That’s why this long forgotten and misunderstood thinker deserves to
be read. His book Capital helps to explain the economic reality of the
world today. We will show this with a close reading of quotes from the
first chapter of “Capital” Volume 1, “The Commodity.” It
offers insights into use value and exchange value, concrete and
abstract labor, money and benefit, work and wealth – paired
together, terms which the modern world can no longer distinguish,
although they really contain the most brutal antagonisms.
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