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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?
robbo203 wrote:I am crap at language and always have been.I don't think that's true. I just think most foreign language teaching is bad. Have a look at the Language Transfer Spanish course in the link I posted above. They use a very effective method, one that you wont really come across in other places. It's an entirely free, voluntary project ran by a guy that is now living in Barcelona. Here's a video of him teach Spaniards English: https://www.facebook.com/languagetransfer/videos/10153047250840431/
alanjjohnstone wrote:If you haven’t started a new language by the age of 10, you have no chance of achieving fluency and that even basic learning abilities fade by 17 or 18.This is absolute bullshit. Es totalmente falso! Most western European languages are much more closely related than most people would realise. The trouble is that most language teaching methods are really awful, and the language learning industry is plagued with cowboys. Lots of people learn how to communicate sufficiently in a second language in adult life. I think the experience of language lessons in schools just leaves most people feeling like it's something they can't do. Some studies I've seen referenced show that adults can actually learn grammar rules quicker than children – we've already been through the process once.Speaking from experience, that Duolingo App isn't really going to help you much apart from to find out if you're interested enough to put the work in. It's just a memory game with no explanation of how the language works or guidance on how to make the phonetic sounds that you'll need to speak. He's right though that practice is best done little and often.I'm surprised AJ isn't bilingual. It shouldn't be too hard to find someone that will trade help with English for help in the native language. I've been doing this with Spanish speakers and my ability is noticeably improving month on month.Mirar este, es muy interesante:www.languagetransfer.org
