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FB post in response to this article by some guy named John Vermazen:
First of all, the idea Karl Popper, anti-communist extraordinaire and apologist for the West in the Cold War, wrote the final word on science is absurd. Falsifiability was critiqued at length, it isn’t how science is actually practiced. Kuhn and Lakatos wrote the definitive works revising the concept in light of plain reality, while Paul Feyerabend famously reduced Popper to absurdity in Against Method.
Secondly, Steve Keen is nothing but a new wave alt-Keynesian who proposes strategic state interventions into a capitalist economy with debt jubilees. He is an apologist for capitalism. His MO is to create a “capitalism that works better” where the capitalists still exploit labor and systematically maldevelop the globe while wrecking the environment, but with less losses from crises and slowdowns.
The Marxist labor theory of value is not the Ricardian labor theory of value; it is not true that there exists some metaphysical value attached to each and every commodity exact equivalent to the concrete amount of labor-time which was put into producing it. People think this because they only read Vol. 1 of Capital, and nothing else. Marx’s point was to CRITIQUE Ricardo’s theory of value, and classical political economy generally. The fact is that calorie counting is and has never been the constraints on actual production–what is the restraints is there are a fixed number of hours in a day that a laborer can work. To go on and on about thermodynamics is pure absurdity: it goes without saying production always conforms to thermodynamic constraints because thermodynamic constraints govern ALL PHYSICAL PROCESSES. The EIA and IEA constantly produce reports on how much energy we consume–its hardly written off as a carry-over. The fact is that no energy has ever been recovered for “free”–the Earth’s surface recieved the same amount of potential energy from the sun for millions of years. What changed? The social organization of human labor to exploit the potential chemical and solar energy through domesticated crops that greatly expanded the capacity of food storage available to human social units in given units of time. That said, if we ever have a communist mode of production, econophysics-like concepts may be important to the purposes of in-kind and physical accounting for value-less production processes.
In any case, the Marxist theory of value is better dubbed the value theory of labor. The central issue is how human creative capacities must be accounted for as labor-values, must be subordinated psychically and socially to production as a concept–this itself is the product of a society based on wage-labor and generalized commodity production: the capitalist mode of production. The social revolution is the overthrow of human creative powers being caged within value.
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I don’t know enough to argue with this guy, except that I know this sentence from his response is hogwash: “The fact is that calorie counting is and has never been the constraints on actual production–what is the restraints is there are a fixed number of hours in a day that a laborer can work. “
Awesome! Looking forward to reports on those visits AND your analysis of current situation, especially relative to Greece. Thanks!
“That evolved state of consciousness, as discussed in the Upanishads as ‘the realm of the thirsty shitfaced,’ is a real up and comer.”
Made me laugh out loud!
What I find disturbing is the request for web searches to be removed. I’m assuming that Google was asked to limit searches on certain keywords or phrases. US requested 198 search removals in 6 months. At a compliance rate (by Google) 0f 63% requests fully or partially complied with, then 124 words or phrases are no longer fully accessible for Google search.
Hmmm. Wonder what some of those phrases could have been?
Thanks for this link; I didn’t know it existed!
Ignorance > Denial > Awareness > Knowledge > Resonance > Sense of the Possible > Intention > Action….
A continuum of awakening. To anything, really. What furthers this movement at every step? Can we generalize?
Interesting etymology on the word “deadline.” The evolution of the word from its original use to its present use would also be interesting!
