Re:The Japanese Communist Party’s New Kawaii Mascots (2013)
by digi_owl on Saturday January 03, 2015 @03:36PM
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Sadly Marx seems to have talked himself in circles, and those trying to make sense of his writings went off on a tangent.
Marx seems to have started out with the basis of a "energy theory of value" but then talked himself into the idea that only labor was the source of excess value (more value out than needed for continued operation). Thus we ended up with the whole "labor theory of value".
Never mind that he seemed more interested in a cooperative system of industry (workers owning the factories the work in) than the state run system that the soviet union produced.
He considered the idea of Russia going right to socialism to be crazy, as it was still mostly agrarian.
He was looking at heavily industrialized nations like England and Germany to transition instead, having used capitalism to get the required infrastructure and legal framework into place.
Marx seems to have started out with the basis of a "energy theory of value" but then talked himself into the idea that only labor was the source of excess value (more value out than needed for continued operation). Thus we ended up with the whole "labor theory of value".
Never mind that he seemed more interested in a cooperative system of industry (workers owning the factories the work in) than the state run system that the soviet union produced.
He considered the idea of Russia going right to socialism to be crazy, as it was still mostly agrarian.
He was looking at heavily industrialized nations like England and Germany to transition instead, having used capitalism to get the required infrastructure and legal framework into place.