I’ve read Manufacturing Consent (as well as a lot of Chomsky shit) , Conquest of bread, Pedagogy of the Opressed.
What are some books that aren’t too theory laden (can’t do it right now) that you recommend every leftist read
Right now I’m reading something called live work work die by Cory Pein basically about how reactionary Silicon Valley actually is.
I’ll need something new soon though
Thanks people
i know this is y i k e s but i'd say that marx's capital is incomplete without the debt book
It also explains and further exposes the fundamental flaw with cryptocurrency, like how it requires so much energy its responsible for 1-3% of global warming
why would you say that? (I've read Debt btw)
because capital has an incredibly crude and limited anthropology, and i haven't finished but marx's monetary theory of value is quite a bit thinner than i expected and falls into some of the same traps that the classical economists did
true, the anthropology, especially about Indigenous peoples, is a massive disservice to what those socieites actually were.
Can you expand a bit on what traps you think Marx fell in in terms of the monetary theory of value, am interested
mainly that money is a purely natural phenomena arising from exchange. i think the real story is much more complicated than that, and graeber's work points to the state being involved much earlier in money's development
Yea definitely. Not sure if he did in any other writings but would have been interesting to see Graeber grapple with more of what Marx wrote.
Have you read “Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value”? was thinking of having a look at it
i have, but not for a while, and i've read all his books so they blend together a bit in my head. it's good though