Monday, April 2, 2012

"When Marx said that capitalism contained the seeds of its own destruction he wasn’t talking about climate change or resource wars"

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n07/john-lanchester/marx-at-193

London Review of Books

Vol. 34 No. 7 · 5 April 2012
pages 7-10

Marx at 193

John Lanchester



"Marx puts great pressure on the question of where value comes from, how commodities are exchanged and what money is. It’s a very simple question but not one that had been asked with such clarity before; it’s also the kind of question no longer asked at a professional or institutional level because the current order of things is taken so much for granted. But it is a very basic and important question, or two questions: what is money and where does its value come from?"

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