A conversation with the Blockchain Socialist on capital as a βreal Godβ and the importance of crypto for Left internationalism.
Tag: marx
Interview on Marx’s Real God (Metaphysical Podcast)
The Metaphysical Podcast interviewed me about Marx’s Real God.
Review of “How Labor Powers the Global Economy” by Emmanuel Farjoun, MoshΓ© Machover and David Zachariah.
Read my review in the Weekly Worker.
Essays on Capital as a Real God
Marx on Capital as a Real God
Dark Eucharist of the Real God
Why machines don’t create value (in Cosmonaut magazine)
Why human labour, and human labour alone, is the cause of profit.
Do machines create value? (CU 2021 talk)
Answer: no. But in this talk I explain precisely why not.
The Genesis of the Transformation Problem (in Cosmonaut magazine)
Read this article if you want to understand the transformation problem, without needing to wade through mathematics or numerical examples.
The beginning of the transformation problem (audio)
Audio of a talk on the origins of Marx’s transformation problem.
Marx’s irrational irrational commodity (audio of talk)
On an element of irrationality in Marx’s thought.
Marx’s irrational irrational commodity
On an element of irrationality in Marx’s thought.
ONTOCAST interview on the Theory of the General Law of Value
The ONTOCAST podcast interviewed me about the general law of value.
Why machines don’t create value (audio of talk)
Machines do work. But they don’t create value.
Audio of “What is abstract labour, and who does the abstracting?”
On the entity that represents abstract labour.
What is abstract labour, and who does the abstracting?
On the entity that represents abstract labour.
Audio of a “Prolegomena to a Demonology of Capitalism”
On the gnostic content of Marxism.
Audio of talk “What is the meaning of money?”
On the missing theory of objective semantics in accounts of money.
The solution to Marx’s transformation problem
Equilibrium prices, even in a capitalist economy with positive profits, represent the labour time actually supplied by workers.
The political economy of neural networks
Some thoughts on advancements in Artificial Intelligence.
Karl Marx’s invisible hand
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.