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Water jug belonging to a militant of the Paris Commune, 1870-1871. From the Franco Prussian War, made in Holz.

#Marxism #Marx #Franco Prussian War #Paris Commune #proletarian dictatorship #socialism #communism

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A bowl with pictures of representatives from the 1875 Gotha Congress, c. 1900.

#Marxism #Marx #GSD #SDAP #ADAV #SPD #Gotha Congress #socialism #communism

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Let me show you a glimpse of the Karl Marx and Capitalism exhibit, put on by the German Historical Museum. I wasn’t aware it was even being held…But made it anyway, fortunately.

#Germany #Berlin #DHM #Marxism #Marx #capitalism #socialism #communism

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Marx watches over Liebknecht declaring the Free Socialist Republic of Germany at the Neuer Marstall..!

#Marxism #Marx #Liebknecht #German revolution #Germany #Berlin #socialism #communism

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Luxemburg’s apartment in Berlin. Just a small plaque outside an inhabited building

#Germany #Berlin #Marxism #Luxemburg #socialism #communism

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While I was exploring around Berlin I covered Luxemburg and Liebknecht—assassinated in retaliation for the January 1919 uprising by Ebert, Noske et al. Both of their memorials are located along the Landwehr Canal. Luxemburg’s dead body was literally just dumped under this bridge. By now, I’m sure you’ve happened to hear that — “Mannheimer leads straight to Dachau”. So please note the Monument to Europe’s murdered Jews—near the Reichstag and Brandenburg Gate—which provides us all an opportunity for self reflection, inspired by a particularly “dark time” in Germany’s (unique) history. Quite the sight— absolutely devastating…

#Berlin #Germany #Marxism #German revolution #Spartakus uprising #Luxemburg #Liebknecht #socialism #communism #fascism

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“Man’s longing for the ideal, when deprived of its objectives, or when these are spoiled, turns back on itself, becomes refined and intensified until it seems to outdo itself.”

- Goethe, letter to F. W. Reiner, August 1808.

#Germany #Berlin #Goethe #German literature #German poetry #world literature #literature #poetry

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“Am I to eat and drink only to get hungry and thirsty and eat and drink again, until the grave opened at my feet devours me and I myself have sprouted to the ground as food? Have I fathered beings like myself so that they too might eat and drink and die and leave behind beings who will do the same as I have already done? What is the purpose of this circle of ever returning into itself, of this game of beginning anew in the same way, a game in which everything comes to be only to pass away, and passes away only to become what it already was? Why this monster that ceaselessly devours itself so that it can give birth to itself again and again, and gives birth to itself so that it can devour itself again?”

- J. G. Fichte, “The Vocation of Man”, 1799.

#Germany #Berlin #philosophy #German idealism #Fichte

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Hegel, Fichte, Brecht, and Marcuse at Dorotheenstadt cemetery in Berlin.

#Germany #Berlin #philosophy #German idealism #Hegel #Fichte #Marxism #Brecht #Marcuse #socialism #communism

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Marx’s own copy of Capital, with personal, handwritten notes— first edition from 1867, temporarily displayed at the Karl Marx and Capitalism exhibit, held by the German Historical Museum in Berlin, February 10-August 21, 2022.

#Germany #Berlin #Marxism #Marx #Capital #socialism #communism

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On my first trip to Europe— finally. I land in Berlin in the early AM tomorrow. I know things have changed considerably there since the wall was torn down—but still I expect a particular contrast of interest between E & W. Re-reading the 1844 Paris manuscripts and related smatterings on the plane. So starting, of course, by heading straight for Marx’s birthplace in Trier.. Now, as I understand, Marx’s childhood home is a “museum”. Way, way beyond “fired up” at this point. Look forward to my reporting from abroad.. Bon Voyage..!

#Europe #Germany #Berlin #world travel #personal

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Soon begins my first world travel, a trip to Europe. Never before in the last 26 years! My flight leaves Norfolk, VA, Aug. 9, just after 12: 30 PM… Then a layover in Newark, NJ; taking a “red eye” from there to Germany. On Aug. 10 at about 8 AM (German time), I arrive to BER. Staying in Berlin @ a small hotel on Kant St. — which is just so “on the nose”! — for the week. Planning to spend a lot of time walking the streets and being a good little tourist, focusing on a few of my favorites. (I’ve read one statue of Lenin is still standing; while the rest beg resurrection..) Massively excited for the whole thing!…. Whatever may I get into !

#Europe #Germany #Berlin #world travel #personal

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Exchange is — the — key to Marx’s concept of value. To reiterate: “Value” only exists when there is an exchange of what labor produces. And, historically, the amounts exchanged have revolved around the embedded amount of labor. While capitalism is the “value economy” — one “primarily” based on commodity exchange and exchange value — this is not to say that value and an exchange of what labor produces did not exist at the margins or even more significantly “for 1,000’s of years”, or that Engels was “wrong” re the existence of value outside capitalism.

Most fundamentally, Marx explains much better what I’m trying to get at on “value before capitalism.” And per Marx’s suggestion, pre- capitalist commodity exchange, based on embedded labor time, was at the margins of society. Re capitalist society, however, all products that have use value are exchanged based on embedded labor time. And, of course, requires a “modified” understanding of the value of a commodity (which brings us to production price). Marx not only foretold virtually everything significant in contemporary, bourgeois economics— such as the dynamics of supply and demand on price that he is accused of ignoring— but did so more methodically and went far beyond…

#Marxism #Marx #Engels #value theory #value #law of value #value form #exchange #exchange value #commodity #money #price #production price #simple commodity production #capitalist commodity production #capitalism #socialism #communism

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Again… Yes, Bill Jefferies!

As Marx states… I think in Grundrisse… while prices revolve around value, it is “only by coincidence” that price exactly matches value. And, of course, this is true for both commodities and prices of production, as the price of machinery, raw materials, and labor power also only revolves around value. Indeed, while many posited a theory of value based on labor before Marx, Marx’s major contribution — and his “law of value” — provides a foundation for understanding how and why prices deviate from value…

#Marxism #Marx #Grundrisse #value theory #value #law of value #value form #exchange #exchange value #commodity #money #price #production price #transformation problem #simple commodity production #capitalist commodity production #capitalism #socialism #communism

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My view this AM… Beach is an awesome place to be in the summer time— accompanied by Goethe and Jo Java. Here is some wisdom given by Thales, which I have found in Faust, Part II:

“Of all life water is the primal source” … 💧

#Goethe #Faust #Thales #philosophy #metaphysics #matter #nature #water #poetry #literature

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Rare sighting of the Real Boy, at the beach. A great day for sand, sun, sweat, and swimming. Straw hat is a real “show stopper”…

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A cautionary tale: demonstrating the use of identity politics and intersectionality in view of the evolution of imperialism in the 21st century…

#Marxism #socialism #communism #capitalism #imperialism #liberalism #identity politics #intersectionality