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Reading Marx: Where Does Profit Come From? (And Why The ‘Rate of Profit’ Must Fall) — Norman Pilon | Taking Sides

February 14, 2017

Norm’s note: in my humble opinion, although many so-called leftists decry the structural imperfections implicit in the economic system that we …

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A thought on Culture as an Integral Part of the Conditions of Existence — written by Norman

January 7, 2017

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under …

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An Opinion or Two on Climate Change — by Norman Pilon | Taking Sides

June 5, 2016

As a person who is neither a scientist nor well-versed in the minutia of climatology, it is interesting to survey …

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Maundering Reminiscences: Growing Up Under Domestic Violence — written by Norm

January 13, 2016

This post will be out of place.  It will not be in content consonant with the tone of the articles …

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A note on the tension between ideological inertia and the impulse to revolution

December 24, 2015

Hi Sojourner, Not entirely sure what to make of the article. It’s a hodgepodge of ideas and insights being served …

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A Synopsis of Marx’s Concept of “Value” and how “Abstract Labour” Determines the Magnitude of all “Exchange-Values” in a Non-arbitrary Way – at least according to Norm

March 12, 2015

[Norm’s note: ( 15 April 2018) I only just discovered this piece by Patrick Murray, “Avoiding Bad Abstractions:  A Defense of …

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Reading Marx (or perhaps ‘reading into’ Marx): a discussion with Brendan on the sense in which “abstract labour” might be said to “exist,” the sense in which Marx himself perhaps intends it.

March 6, 2015

What are we to think of a law which can only assert itself through periodic crises?  It is just a …

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Reading Marx: On the ‘Reduction’ of ‘Skilled Labour’ to ‘Unskilled Labour’

February 25, 2015

Norm’s note: I’m merely re-posting this because there appears to be some interest in it, or rather, in the content …

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Why read Karl Marx?

December 30, 2014

Karl Marx, or at least the current of thought for which he was a spokesman and exegete, whether people realize …

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On Proudhonism and the Marxist Comeback

February 25, 2014

Recently, I posted some excerpts from Proudhon, Engels, and Marx.  Proudhon came to my notice by a piece signaled and …

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Is Bitcoin an Alternative Currency?

December 31, 2013

I’ve heard Max Keiser and even James Corbett (the latter of whom I deem highly reliable as a source of …

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