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So, just like the revisionist who claims to lead when in fact he is following, I ask: Who wants me to take on Capital in public, and who would rather I let sleeping surplus-value lie?
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2010
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As in the first-world, it's tough to make a living at writing, but third-world economies have much less surplus-value, so career-choices have a life-or-death quality.
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So, just like the revisionist who claims to lead when in fact he is following, I ask: Who wants me to take on Capital in public, and who would rather I let sleeping surplus-value lie?
skzbrust: On Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and blog updates skzbrust 2010
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The exchange on a moose meat, hide and trophy may appear on the surface to be fair and free – yet the insidious evil workings of surplus-value and alienated labor quickly become apparent.
Libertarians Still Lusting for Palin? « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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Labour-intensive goods cede surplus-value to machine-intensive goods via this imbalance in the pricing process.
E pur si muove Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Labour-intensive goods cede surplus-value to machine-intensive goods via this imbalance in the pricing process.
Archive 2008-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Another way of putting Marx's solution is to say that while living labour generates surplus-value, there is a compensation for those companies (capitals) which use more machines to labour than the average because their price/value ratio is larger than one.
E pur si muove Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Another way of putting Marx's solution is to say that while living labour generates surplus-value, there is a compensation for those companies (capitals) which use more machines to labour than the average because their price/value ratio is larger than one.
Archive 2008-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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An object-lesson in the production and management of quotidian surplus-value, the discourse of gastronomy, like its pleasures, is constituted by a tendency to excess which, at the same time, it seeks to regulate as an exercise in good taste.
Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire 2007
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Therein would reside a possible Lacanian critique of Marx, focusing on the ambiguous overlapping between surplus-value and surplus-enjoyment.
Gerry Canavan 2007
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