Adventures in Marxist Theory
A god abides with us still. And if we wish to see its face we need merely reach into our own pockets.
A conversation with the Blockchain Socialist on capital as a βreal Godβ and the importance of crypto for Left internationalism.
The ONTOCAST podcast interviewed me about the general law of value.
Why human labour, and human labour alone, is the cause of profit.
There is a specific aspect of Marxβs theory of capitalism that isnβt sufficiently emphasised. And that is Marxβs view that capital is an actual entity — a being with a mind of its own that operates independently from us.
What is Hegel’s logic? How does it relate to the fundamental structure of reality?
Equilibrium prices, even in a capitalist economy with positive profits, represent the labour time actually supplied by workers.
Getting serious about economic inequality requires thinking about the fundamentals: which is the wage system, where one class systematically exploits another. We need much less talk about inequality, and much more talk about exploitation.
Marxβs invisible hand is the law of value: it explains how a market economy coordinates the division of labour, and therefore why the prices of commodities bear a lawful relationship to the labour time required to produce them.
On the misanthropic method, Micro Machines on the SEGA Megadrive, and not writing a short story.
On not meeting the novelist, David Lodge.
What is a blockchain? Why is it relevant to socialism?
On the spooky relationship between Victorian spirit summoning and the “phantom-like objectivity” of value.
Newton at the dawn of the Dark Enchantment.
A talk that discusses the two sides of Newton: the enchanted medieval Christian and the disenchanted early modern scientist.
The Metaphysical Podcast interviewed me about Marx’s Real God.
Read my review in the Weekly Worker.
Short talk that summarises the main propositions of this book.
Short talk that summarises the main propositions of this book.
The third reading from the secret book on capitalism.
The second reading from the secret book on capitalism.
Marx on Capital as a Real God
Dark Eucharist of the Real God
A god abides with us still. And if we wish to see its face we need merely reach into our own pockets.
Answer: no. But in this talk I explain precisely why not.
The first reading from the secret book on capitalism. (Link to the second reading).
Read this article if you want to understand the transformation problem, without needing to wade through mathematics or numerical examples.
Audio of a talk on the origins of Marx’s transformation problem.
On not being abducted by aliens.
On not reading Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus.
On not reading the first issue of CCRU’s ****collapse magazine.
On not meeting Sadie Plant.
On not attending Virtual Futures in 1994.
This is a short story about a short story that nobody wrote.
On an element of irrationality in Marx’s thought.
On an element of irrationality in Marx’s thought.
The ONTOCAST podcast interviewed me about the general law of value.
Machines do work. But they don’t create value.
How the social relations of capitalism explain macroeconomic phenomena.
Capital is an entity that controls us.
On the entity that represents abstract labour.
On the entity that represents abstract labour.
Perfect order from perfect chaos.
On the gnostic content of Marxism.
On the gnostic content of Marxism.
On the missing theory of objective semantics in accounts of money.
On the missing theory of objective semantics in accounts of money.
TL;DR: no
Riemann’s Zeta function is an infinite sublation of Hegelian integers.
Riemann’s Zeta function is an infinite sublation of Hegelian integers.
A mathematical interpretation of the opening of Hegel’s Science of Logic.
Are Cantor’s higher infinities really real?
Venture Communism is a type of revolutionary organisation that aims to exit capitalism by immediately constructing communal production relations.
Why no startup can truly make the world a better place.
Why no startup can truly make the world a better place.
Some thoughts on advancements in Artificial Intelligence.
How the social relations of capitalism explain macroeconomic phenomena.
On what is wrong with the classical labour theory of value, including Marx’s version of it, and how to fix it.
On Luigi Pasinetti’s contributions to the theory of value.
Value as a field property of the social conditions of production.
Profit is not inherently exploitative.
Sraffa’s standard commodity and the general law of value.
A nonlinear dynamic system model of the general law of value.
Supply and demand without intersecting curves.
On adjusting prices in historical time.
A simple monetary economy.
On the key concept of coexisting labour.
On deploying society’s resources to meet final demand.
On material reproduction over time.
On the key concept of vertical integration.
On the ultimate material constraint.
Are Cantor’s higher infinities really real?
All types of economy face the problem of coordinating activities to meet final demand.
Surplus: the material foundation for human culture
A production process is where labour transforms inputs into outputs.
Simple beginnings: how to make an output from inputs.
A book I co-authored.
On the importance of the blockchain for socialist organisation.
Towards scalable institutions that immediately exit capitalist property relations
A talk on Venture Communism.
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