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Look at his writings in TSV Part 2, on Rodbertus, and then again in vol 3--
were rent is how land is realized as an economic value. Marx makes quite a
point, actually going back all the way to his early Economic and
philosophical manuscripts, that cash ground-rent is the result of capitalism
confronting landed property in its "non-capitalist" social configuration.
Marx's writings on rent have driven me nuts,-- ok, ok, in my case it's not a
drive it's just a hop skip and a jump-- for two years. He argues that rent
is somehow so "alien" to the exchange of goods at their prices of
production, so antithetical to establishing an average rate of profit... and
if you look at modern "rent spikes" i.e. oil prices, those spikes certainly
do not follow the path they should follow according to Marx's analysis.
Yes, I agree, contradictions don't mean the end of capital; the mean,
equally, the reproduction of capital. As for capital making the planet
uninhabitable for everyone... I certainly agree with that, but it's not
going to be the result of resource depletion. It will be the result of the
need to destroy the prospects for social reproduction in order to preserve
capital accumulation.
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To: <sartes...@earthlink.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 7:31 PM
Subject: [Marxism] Bread riots?
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