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Marx – Capital Vol 1 Sec 4

July 12, 2024

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

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Marx – Capital Vol 1 Sec 3

July 11, 2024

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

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Inferno: Cantos 7-14

July 9, 2024

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

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June 2024 Reading

June 28, 2024

Some more difficult reading this month. There is the continuation of the journey through Dante’s Inferno, and then the start of Marx’s major opus- Capital…

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May 2024 Reading

May 30, 2024

This has been a VERY tough month for reading. The three books that took the majority of the time during the month: Canzoniere, Fascist Doctrine, and

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dave

“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.