— David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Capital (via daveomitchell)
(via e-schatology)
TRYNA HUSTLE TWO TIMES
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This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of nature, not a social construction arising out of a particular mode of production. What Marx is interested in is a revolutionary transformation of society, and that means an overthrow of the capitalist value-form, the construction of an alternative value-structure, an alternative value system that does not have the specific character of that achieved under capitalism. I cannot overemphasize this point, because the value theory in Marx is frequently interpreted as a universal norm with which we should comply. I have lost count of the number of times I have heard people complain that the problem with Marx is that he believes the only valid notion of value derives from labor inputs. It is not that at all; it is a historical social product. The problem, therefore, for socialist, communist, revolutionary, anarchist or whatever, is to find an alternative value-form that will work in terms of the social reproduction of society in a different image. By introducing the concept of fetishism, Marx shows how the naturalized value of classical political economy dictates a norm; we foreclose on revolutionary possibilities if we blindly follow that norm and replicate commodity fetishism. Our task is to question it.
— David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Capital (via daveomitchell)
— David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Capital (via daveomitchell)
2012/05/31
gq:
Drake vs. T. Boone Pickens
T. Boone Pickens is a rich-as-fuck Texas hedge funder. Drake, as you know, is a rich-as-fuck emo rapper. Last night they made sweet Twitter comedy together. Sometimes the Internet really does seem like something special, doesn’t it?
Edit: Highlight rich-as-fuck emo rapper. Hilarity ensues
(via hegemon)
2012/05/30
Reel Style: Jamie Foxx’s Django
Leave it to Quentin Tarantino to bring peacocking to the Wild West.
