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Class 06 Reading Marx’s Capital Vol I with David Harvey

  » NEIL SMITH: One of the striking things for me always about that chapter was the extraordinarily precise mathematical logic of it. I mean, it comes closest to a mathematical dialectic. And sometimes that ability and that way of working are why Marx gets tagged as in some ways a structuralist » HARVEY: positivist!…

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Class 12 Reading Marx’s Capital Vol I with David Harvey

  » NEIL SMITH: This brings me back to your your point earlier about the last chapters in Capital. There’s the primitive accumulation chapter of course, but I was thinking as much about the chapter on colonies and Wakefield, and the sense you get from Marx’s critique of Wakefield which is that the realities of…

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Salon calls Uber ‘the embodiment of unrestrained hyper-capitalism’

http://twitter.com/#!/scottlincicome/status/506221843162750976 What has Salon does this time, and are we sure it’s not the Salon parody account? It’s published a piece entitled, “Why Uber must be stopped,” noting that the app-driven ride sharing service “is proving to be the embodiment of unrestrained hyper-capitalism.” http://twitter.com/#!/WTrentNichols/status/506230109905629184 Pretty much. What writer Andrew Leonard is trying to say is this,…

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