In this reflection, I combine the content of the two classes last week. First, I will give my reply to several questions that posted by the discussion leaders. Secondly, I summarize and present my thoughts to several discussion topics in class. And finally, I would like to posit my questions to Marx, Marxists, or Post-Marxist. For the class on Tuesday, one question we discussed was about the differences between money as capital and money as mere money. My own answer to this is that Marx discussed this problem by using two different forms of circulation. First is C-M-C (commodity to money, and then to commodity). In this circulation, money is only money. Since people only sell things that have no use value to themselves for money in order
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To me, I think the former one refers to the mechanisms that are not structural. For example, the several influence channels for capitalists to influence the state managers, or the unwritten rules that have some restrictions to the state’s decision making. However, what behind all of these are the major structural mechanism, which shaped the tendency of state managers to make the decisions in favor of the capitalists. These major structural mechanisms are followed through the facts that the states should maintain certain level of economic activities to stabilize the society and gain the support from the people. I thought the difference is clear, although he mentioned a lot of economic terms in the …show more content…
Most of them are big questions: First, why is lending money and getting interest being criticized so hard? Does not enduring the time without no such money a labor that need compensate? Second, why the major task of human being considered by Marx is labor, not playing? Is playing or relaxing important too? Third, why do Marx, Marxist, and Post-Marxist criticize capitalists inside the logic of political economics (They use the term of money, value, business confidence. Even some of the distinction like constant and variable capital are created by Marx and still used today in Economics)? Should not they jump out of the box and criticize it from the
To me, I think the former one refers to the mechanisms that are not structural. For example, the several influence channels for capitalists to influence the state managers, or the unwritten rules that have some restrictions to the state’s decision making. However, what behind all of these are the major structural mechanism, which shaped the tendency of state managers to make the decisions in favor of the capitalists. These major structural mechanisms are followed through the facts that the states should maintain certain level of economic activities to stabilize the society and gain the support from the people. I thought the difference is clear, although he mentioned a lot of economic terms in the …show more content…
Most of them are big questions: First, why is lending money and getting interest being criticized so hard? Does not enduring the time without no such money a labor that need compensate? Second, why the major task of human being considered by Marx is labor, not playing? Is playing or relaxing important too? Third, why do Marx, Marxist, and Post-Marxist criticize capitalists inside the logic of political economics (They use the term of money, value, business confidence. Even some of the distinction like constant and variable capital are created by Marx and still used today in Economics)? Should not they jump out of the box and criticize it from the