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Lecture 2 - Value and Anti-Value

Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History (audio)

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Capitalism and Consumer Choice

Capitalists are locked in a perpetual battle not only to produce values, but to combat their potential negation. Even the lowest paid worker enters the marketplace endowed with a sacred right of consumer choice. Anti-value defines an active field of anti-capitalist struggle. Resistances arise on moral, political, cultural, aesthetic, religious, and even philosophical grounds.

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