
Lecture 2 - Value and Anti-Value
Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History (audio)
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The Negation of Value in Marx's World
In Marx's world, there's not an unfortunate accident but a deep and abiding feature of what capital is about. All capitalist commodity producers know that the success of their enterprise is assured only when their commodity has been sold for a money value. If they cannot do this, then they are no longer capitalists. The evolutionary laws of capital on segment hinge upon the unfolding relation between value and anti-value in much the same way as physics dressed on relations between matter and anti-netism.
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