26 June 2019 — theplanningmotive.com
This thesis is about measuring intangible and creative labours.
Tag: capital
Problems of Value Production (1) By S. Artesian
5 December 2018 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor
The intensity of production
Competition, according to an American economist, determines how many days of simple labor are contained in one day’s compound labor. Does not this reduction of days of compound labor to days of simple labor suppose that simple labor is itself taken as a measure of value? If the mere quantity of labor functions as a measure of value regardless of quality, it presupposes that simple labor has become the pivot of industry. It presupposes that labor has been equalized by the subordination of man to the machine or by the extreme division of labor; that men are effaced by their labor; that the pendulum of the clock has become as accurate a measure of the relative activity of two workers as it is of the speed of two locomotives. Therefore, we should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at the most, time’s carcase.
Quality no longer matters. Quantity alone decides everything; hour for hour, day for day;
Marx – The Poverty of Philosophy
Video: The 1% and Piketty
30 April 2014— The Real News Network
Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Jessica Desvarieux in Baltimore. And welcome to this edition of The Hudson Report. Now joining us is Michael Hudson. Michael is a distinguished research professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His two newest books are The Bubble and Beyond and Finance Capitalism and Its Discontents. Continue reading
The Middle East: State and revolution By Maged Mandour
13 February 2014 — openDemocracy
The Arab world, after analyzing the nature of states in the Middle East, needs to find its own indigenous path to democracy, based on its own unique historical, and societal conditions.
'Left reformism' and socialist strategy By Ed Rooksby
7 October 2013 — International Socialism
There has been a significant revival of interest among the radical left in “big picture” questions of socialist strategy that, as Mark L. Thomas has pointed out, represents a return to “important debates of the left largely absent over the last three decades”.1
Shock Doctrine' Americana: Endless War as the Ultimate Business Model By William Astore
22 October 2013 — TomDispatch
Disaster Capitalism on the battlefield and in the boardroom
People’s Inquiry – a grassroots vision for our NHS? By John Lister
14 October 2013 — Our NHS
As the NHS groans under cuts and chaotic reorganisation, government bodies are calling for yet more ‘radical change‘ and ‘difficult decisions’. Will their answers be hospital closures and privatisations? The new People’s Inquiry is calling for evidence to support a different way forward.
Contested Reproduction and the Contradictions of Socialism By Michael A. Lebowitz
13 September 2013 — The Bullet • Socialist Project E-Bulletin No. 877
Some Explanations About the Fall of ‘Real Socialism’
Why did ‘real socialism’ and, in particular the Soviet Union, fall? Let me note a few explanations that have been offered. With respect to the Soviet Union, one very interesting explanation that has been suggested is that it’s all the fault of Mikhail Gorbachev. And not simply the errors of Gorbachev but the treachery. Those who offer this explanation rely in particular upon a document which is sometimes described as his confession. This document begins as follows:
The Full Story on Why Obama Backed Down on Syria By: Ibrahim al-Amin
2 September 2013 — Al-Akhbar
Commentators in the West will surely declare that it was their democratic systems of government that forced US President Barack Obama to back down on attacking Syria. But the events that led up to Washington’s de-escalation suggest there were other factors at play.
Housmans Books Newsletter September 2013
3 September 2013 — Housmans
NEWS
1. Housmans New Online Shop – In Affiliation With Hive
2. Peace News fundraiser: “Come Out! We Have You Surrounded!”
3. The Cally Festival, Sunday 8th September 12-6pm
Video: The Impact of Robots: Abundance and the Need for Radical Structural Reform
1 September 2013 — Solidarity Economy
Marx anticipated the problem as capitalism’s systemic crisis, the growth in the ‘organic composition of capital’ (machines) in an inverse relation to ‘living labor’ (jobs). The way out, in the shorter run, is a social wage combined with shorter hours, and in the longer run, socialism on the path to a classless society. McAfee here sees the problem, if not the full solution. – Carl Davidson
Preoccupying: an interview with David Harvey
16 August 2013 — Our Kingdom – Occupied Times
