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Chapter one extended to Tuesday, see pic for schedule.
If you watched lecture one, then the pdf of marx's "For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing" is below(*)
Almost at the point of no return, begin reading now if you still wish to join.

Links:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf.htm (Other works)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-I.pdf
https://platypus1917.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/marx_earlyphilosophicalcritique_mereader9-151.pdf (*)

Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBazR59SZXk&list=PL0A7FFF28B99C1303 [Embed] [Embed]
>Class 1 Introduction. An open course consisting of a close reading of the text of Volume I of Marx's Capital in 13 video lectures by Professor David Harvey. The page numbers Professor Harvey refers to are valid for both the Penguin Classics and Vintage Books editions of Capital.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSQgCy_iIcc [Embed] [Embed] (Introduction)

Study Questions and Suggested Essay Topics:
>https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/guide/index.htm

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death to marxists

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bumping this thread

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Btw some interesting stuff Zizek has to say about commodity fetishism in The Sublime Object of Ideology:

>fetishistic misrecognition
"Being-a-king is an effect of the network of social relations between a "king" and his "subjects"; but--and here is the fetishistic misrecognition--to the participants of this social bond, the relationship appears necessarily in an inverse form; they think they are subjects giving the king royal treatment because the king is already in himself, outside the relationship to his subjects, a king; as if the determination of being-a-king were a "natural" property of the person of a king."
"How can one not remind oneself here of the famous Lacanian affirmation that a madman who believes himself to be king is no more mad than a king who believes himself to be king--who, that is, identifies immediately with the mandate "king""

Essentially, under capitalism, for Zizek, the relationship between commodities parallels that of the feudal relationship between king and subject or lord and serf, in that, we misrecognise the value of a commodity, which emerges as the result of a social relation with other commodities, as a part of the commodity itself.

"The real problem is not to penetrate to the "hidden kernel" of the commodity--the determination of its value by the quantity of the work consumed in its production--but to explain why work assumed the form of the value of a commodity, why it can affirm its social character only in the commodity form of its product."

So, essentially, acc. Zizek, Marx is saying in this section that commodity fetishism entails that the relations of domination which were clearly understood in feudal societies, have been repressed by being displaced onto commodities under capitalism.

Any thoughts on this from anyone? Does this interpretation have a basis in what Marx is saying?