bdazman

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[–] bdazman@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

the original (the 1890s one by Engles I believe) is super good compared to the Penguin one because some of the newer publications of Capital literally added words by selectively translating words that may or may not have been translated previously. Concepts like Valorization are essentially linguistic artifacts of such translations, as argued by Cockshott --> https://youtu.be/XV518Z6ob_E

Socialism4All did a capital volume 1 audiobook reading and the commentary he offers is absolutely transformational while also being very minimal. --> https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXUFLW8t2snu8BtqMfedSA6AaNcfXjFmN

This is a stark comparison to Heinrichs "Introduction" to Capital which reads as quite revisionist to me as I am not a "Value-Form" advocate who denies the TRPF as Henrich does.

[–] bdazman@hexbear.net 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Holy shit it's the propaganda poster that liberals believe I love it.

 

The author accuses Losurdo of revisionism and dubs it 'Marcyism'?

It seems to largely center around critiques of Dengism I've seen before, but also acts like it will be criticized for attacking left unity which is interesting.

Accuses PSL/Gabriel Rockhill of being "genetically Trotskyist"?

There's a shitload here but it was presented to me in an org I'm in as "a summary of issues I have with PSL and Losurdo citers and Rockhill fans" and it's gonna take me all damn day to wrap my head around this.

[–] bdazman@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its such a good fucking book, as well as his next book on Make Believe Media as a snapshot of a kind of socialist media criticism in the early 90s that's a dazzling work of materialist analysis.

I know a lot of people that poopoo Parenti but I think his books are fucking excellent.

[–] bdazman@hexbear.net 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I would love to hear your review of the book in the newsletter if you get around to it. It's next on my reading list.