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I thought this video, also on the MHI, wasn’t too bad. If it hasn’t been mentioned before:
“However, capitalist reality is keeping large populations in poverty and so uneducated, and this in turn results in those populations’ proliferation.”
But the birth rate has already rapidly fallen *the world over*. Population is increasing not because more people are being born but because more people are living longer.
Watch this film for up to date information:
“It is wishful thinking to say that humans are any different from fruit flies in their reproductive patterns in societies that do not provide sufficient education. Where is the scientific basis for such assertions?”
Where’s the scientific basis for saying that human reproductive patterns *do* follow this pattern? Which historical examples can you give?
Aeon magazine only takes artilces written by people with proven specialist knowledge in their field.
I don’t know what specialist knowledge this “schekn_itrch” is claiming to have.
“Why the carrying capacity of the earth is not fixed”
https://aeon.co/ideas/the-earths-carrying-capacity-for-human-life-is-not-fixed
“world population is well beyond carrying capacity of the planet.”
Ok. So who do you suggest we bump off first?
As an introduction, these short Youtube videos could be worth a watch, along with the other written articles on the website:
https://kapitalism101.wordpress.com/law-of-value-the-series/
Goes into more than “Das Kapital” territory, and probably can’t be described as concise, but I found this series of lectures on Marx useful:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh1_dJaBHMMaceTU6V-cvoQ/videos
I think you are asking good questions.Try this:https://libcom.org/files/kliman.pdf
There was a failed attempt at reading I I Rubin’s book on this forum. That should be one you should look through..
Sympo wrote:Do you believe that the SNLT of a widget can never be figured out?It’s never going to be a fixed magnitude, we are dealing with a dynamic process
If a commodity doesn’t sell then the labour that has gone into producing it hasn’t been socially necessary.
MBellemare wrote:Anarchism, Now! Anarchism, Forever! (p.s. you should go to bed, cause you head must hurt terrribly after this DJP…haha)Pure scholarship. Thanks
MBellemare wrote:the law of value, in a post-industrial age, the economic system is totally rigged according to the arbitrary, fanciful, whims of capitalists, that is, the artificial and arbitrary fabrication of value, price and wage.So why is their a falling rate of profit, economic crisis and companies going bust?Thanks for writing your reply but I doubt I’ll have time to discuss further. What you have written doesn’t seem to have more explanatory power…
MBellemare wrote:It is post-industrial in the sense that the majority of work done today is unquantifiable. There is no such thing as the regulatory mechanism of socially necessary labor-time, anymore. To quote, Paul Feyerabend, "Anything Goes", today. Marx's value theory today is thus obsolete, despite being a beautifully rational theory.What is you think is actually different between “industrial” and “post industrial” capitalism. What do mean most work today is “unquantifiable”? How is that different from previous eras of capitalism?
MBellemare wrote:And contrary to Marx, and Andrew Kliman, value/price is an arbitrary conceptual construct, especially within post-industrial, post-modern capitalism, based solely on capitalist power, that is, what a capitalist entity can get away with in the production sphere and the marketplace, pertaining to his/her own artificial determination of a specific value/price.Anarchism, Now! Anarchism, Forever!Capitalism is a world system it will never be “post industrial”. “What a capitalist entity can get away with in the marketplace” Is precisely what value theory studies… The price is always what the market can bear. But what factors determine that?
