Mar 28
Reified Capital
As usual, I have chosen a sentence from today’s Book of the Day, to write a deeper analysis about it. If capital is the reified form of the proletariat’s activity which confronts it in the relation of exploitation — its own activity which is abstracted from it, appropriated as capital and subsumed under the form of self‑valorising value — then even the most concrete level of the class relation…
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