1. If both x and n are positive whole numbers, can x + n < x? (show your work)

I long knew it was coming, but it has arrived.  I learned of this because some have closed due to heat and or the pandemic surging, K-12 sch...

Afterword to the Second German Edition [of Das Kapital , Buch 1] (1873): I must start by informing the readers of the first edition about th...

 Arguably the Arab Spring ended a long time ago.  It was after all, Spring 2011, to be precise in terms of when the spring was.  It had argu...

 One of the more curious things in 2017 in the first year of the Trump presidency was how when Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UA...

Back in December I posted an excerpt from the Grundrisse ,  Reichtum ist verfügbare Zeit und nichts weiter , without noticing that in it was...

 In Virginia, cities and counties are separate, not one containing the other as in most of the US. So I live in the City of Harrisonburg, po...

Although Marx discussed socially necessary labour time in chapters 4, 8, 9, 16, 17, and 20, he didn't mention it in chapter 21 where he ...

 In yesterday's Washington Post it was reported that there will be no further negotiations between the US and Iran (and other parties) i...

Marx's discussion of socially necessary labour time in Chapter 20 of Theories of Surplus Value is notable for the fact that it comes im...

 My niece, Erica Werner, is a reporter for the Washington Post.  She long covered heated debates in Congress over economic policy, getting o...

Unemployment is socially necessary. Discuss.

Nothing notable in these chapters. Chapter 8: Poor quality land requires more labour time than socially necessary (which is to say the avera...

Early this morning the statue of Robert E. Lee was finally removed from a park in the city of Charlottesville.  This issue had brought the a...

In an earlier post , I mentioned that in chapter seven of TSV Marx explicitly excluded William Godwin from his historical review of theories...