The critique of Value by the work of Anselm Jappe is also relevant here. Capital and Labor are two sides of the same coin. Machines do not labor, they consume and transform energy provided by humans

Tom John, and Michael, Good discussion. I have to stop here. Obviously, a very big subject.

OK --- my last shot and then we will leave it to everyone else --- The rock increased the productivity of the labor --- it took longer (and maybe it was not as good a "product") before the group

Forbes Reveals Why The US Government Is Trying To Extradite Alex Saab - PopularResistance.Org Alex Saab is “the key that unlocks the Venezuelan monetary mystery—that is, how a country facing

<<, "Do machines add value?," >> Machines add value to the product being fashioned by losing value themselves. Assuming that the machine in question is the average of its ilk and the skill of the

Gil, Fair enough. If the 'stick' is broken it won't provide support. Referring specifically to your argument, though, the thing you think breaks the stick is actually the basis of Marx's argument

Thanks for posting this, Jim. A thoughtful and positive review. I couldn'task for more!

I won't repeat what I said in a previous post about the Fort Dix coffeehouse as an example of how the portrayal of the history of SDS has been incomplete, but I do have to say something about the

Tom, I guess my position is that the tensegrity model doesn't hold because the "value" stick in Marx's specific and technical use of the term is broken and inconsistent, which is why he could never

As long as we're on the subject of reviews in Science & Society -------------------------------------------------- Can the Working Class Change the World?, by Michael D. Yates. New York: Monthly

Zombie universities Neoliberalism has turned universities into “hungry” institutions that act like zombies: consuming brains for profit rather than enriching minds.

Tomorrow’s event: The Nicaraguan Crisis: A Left Perspective October 7, 2021 The crisis in Nicaragua has divided the Left in the United States and throughout the Americas. Significant sectors of

Great book. Really enjoyed it. Mike.

I won't reply directly to the points raised by the sender but only want to call attention to my message, "Do machines add value?," in which I have the subject line to reflect the topic, rather than a

Update https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dy9x/people-work-100-days-straight-kelloggs-workers-shut-down-cereal-factories Brian Gibbons

Thanks for posting the S&S review. btw, Lou Proyect had a couple of pieces in CounterPunch about the book. His review is at

 Review You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL, and Adventures in Building a Worker- Student Alliance, by John F. Levin and Earl Silbar. San Francisco, California: 1741 Press, 2018. Paper,

The October 2021 issue of Science & Society has a review of You Say You Want A Revolution: SDS, PL, and Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance. The review appears at p. 546 of the print

Simply put, in developed capitalism there is normally little relationship of the value of the commodity to the price it sells for on the market. Market-wide, however, the total value of the output,

On September 21st with much fanfare China said it was going to start cutting support for coal fire plants in the country and worldwide but since 2013 China, Japan and South Korea have contributed 95%