July 2024 Reading
Some more difficult reading this month. There is the continuation of the journey through Dante’s Inferno, and the rest of Marx’s Capital. L’inferno- Dante (1321) Continuing
Some more difficult reading this month. There is the continuation of the journey through Dante’s Inferno, and the rest of Marx’s Capital. L’inferno- Dante (1321) Continuing
Part 8: So-Called Primitive Accumulation This is the last section of the book, so this post will conclude the notes and summary from Capital Vol
Part 7: The Process of Accumulation of Capital Chap 23: Simple Reproduction Whatever the social form of the production process, it has to be continuous. Every
Part 6: Wages Chap 19: Transformation of the Value of Labor-Power into Wages Wages appear as the price of labor- a certain amount of money paid
Part 5: Absolute and Relative Surplus Value Chap 16: Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value In so far as the labor process is purely individual, the same worker
Part 4: The Production of Relative Surplus Value Chap 12: The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value The portion of a worker’s workday that produces his subsistence has
Part 3: The Production of Absolute Surplus Value Chap 7: The Labor Process and the Valorization Process 1. The Labor Process 2. The Valorization Process In the
Part 2: The Transformation of Money into Capital Chap 4: The General Formula for Capital While money and the circulation took the form of C-M-C; so
So this is a work I started years ago, but found too boring to get through even a chapter of. Since I’ve been rereading what
Canto VII This canto starts off with some puzzlers, including the very first line: «Pape Satàn, pape Satàn aleppe!» uttered by Plutus. Dante doesn’t explain what it means, and
“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“
This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.
The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.