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Happy birthday to the great thinker, sociologist and economist, Karl Marx!

David Harvey, On Sraffa’s Trail, NLR 152, March–April 2025 David Harvey recalls a lifetime of encounters, actual and intellectual, with the enigmatic Piero Sraffa. Interlocutor of Wittgenstein, Keynes and Robinson; devastating critic of neoclassical economics...

“Piero and Me.” I’ve published some personal reflections on Piero Sraffa in the latest @newleftreview.bsky.social

newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...

Congrats, Mr. Harvey. Hoping to read your take on Sraffa very soon. Meanwhile I've bought the Turkish translation of your book "Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason" yesterday at a book fair.

I've found and read most of Harris, Hyppolite, Kojeve and Taylor as secondary references. Hoping to find Stern which was recommended to me before someday.

Hegel's tutor G. C. Storr observed Kant's impact on religion. This impact was internalized by Hegel since for him, the true root of faith lies in rational and moral acceptance and not in the fear of hell.

Based on what Antonio Negri says, the disobedience to authority is not only a right, but it's a natural and healthy act.

Reading Hegel's texts on Christianity recently. He never pays attention to the miracles of Jesus or he mentions them on purpose because what Hegel believes is the end of Jesus was to build a religion which is rationally grounded. This interpretation owes a lot to Kant's writings on religion.

Recently reading Hegel's early writings. Like Lukács, I do hesitate to categorize them as "theological" because they are more about the theologians' effect on people's belief than the core structure of the religion itself. Also the undeniable impact of Kant can be clearly observed.

Lately I've been busy with "phenomenology" again but a different one other than Hegel's. This time reading Schutz's sociology based mostly on Weber and on Husserl. Been working on an article about Schutz for a philosophy journal. When finished, will return to working on my Hegel book.

Lately over 200 new followers. Everyone is welcomed but selective follow-back became problematic for me. If being mutuals is desired please introduce yourselves.

Great timing! I was looking for a calming image to meditate.

Oh and it's a Roman Salute, it's nothing.

a group of men are standing in front of a large map of the world . ALT: a group of men are standing in front of a large map of the world .

I have a song from the 90s for Elon Musk: "I'm so excited and I just can't hide it"

Awesome day.

1967 MLK quote: “The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of altruism and evils of racism.”

I am reading Alfred Schutz nowadays. His heroes are Husserl and Scheler.

If you are not interested, you can say "No", no worries, just let's not lose touch; I have always wanted to expand my work but I have other projects now, so I want to pass the "torch" to you. By the way, always interested in Bruce Roberts' thesis on the matter, but couldn't find it, could you?

The journal never asked for an English abstract. Let me summarize: I supplied a very simple mathematical proof that Bortkiewicz's solution could never be satisfactory on any level. And it's clear that his solution was grounded according to the Ricardian principles.

@saga1894.bsky.social Hello Sascha! You chose a very interesting topic to work on. For your thesis, I presume? I've published an essay on the matter back in 2011 but in Turkish. If you say you can use Google translator, I may send it to you.

According to Cioran, when we write a thought down, that thought loses its importance and impact. Writing down offers a Rilkean healing for the soul and mind but the time itself diminishes the impact of a thought, not writing. Even if I keep it to myself, time might negate it with new thoughts.

As Pinkard puts it, Hegel felt uneasy with the interpreters or the so-called followers of Schelling.

Taking notes is over. 28 pages of hand-written notes on Hegel, in the end, encouraged me to write a book on Hegel and yesterday I already wrote two pages.

Capital wants to keep the value of labor power as low as possible by reducing the material standard of living of the laborer to a bare minimum. Individual capitalists drive down the wages of their own employees but look to their rivals to raise wages to increase consumption capacity in the market.

46? Almost there! And I don't believe the "discontents of civilization" could be solved in a 45 minute therapy. Most of our individual issues are in fact collective issues and therapy doesn't help you in seeing this fact.

According to Marx and Engels, the "mystification" of Hegel's philosophy is to serve the purpose to maintain the status quo.

The "ingenious" critics of Marx always say that Marx had neglected the "demand" side of economics - as if there could be independent consumption patterns under capitalism.