/lit/ - Literature

>>4052955
See Veblen on the function of the University.

Going back to Oxford, it is the mission of the Undergraduate to fuck shit up when stuff is wrong in the institution.

>You sit on your fat arses, merely enduring students--and even then because they're the cash cows that keep your "serious work" going.

I personally don't. But yes, permanent staff as a group do. Welcome to the layer cake.

>Like some days you don't even show up to class
"Tenure" doesn't extend that far.

>>4052961
>Can't indoctrination get you fired?
The best way to arm the class for warfare is to provide them with a high quality education and let them find their own way to practical class struggle. You can't "learn" burning a police station from a book. You learn it at work. From the machine.

>>4052936
>Where do I start?
Wages Pr...

Nah seriously:
Plays
Poems
Novels
Essays
Letters
Monographs ("academic" books)
Journals ("academic")
Journals ("literary")
Magazines
Newspapers / News aggregations

what kind of thing do you want to start with?

>>4052942
>equivocation
>false moderation
You're going to go far with a reading technique like that. False moderation given you a big red circle "dubious?" or worse, "unargued."

>>4052913
>He missed things as basic as market cues
He talks about realisation problems at length in I and II. You've not actually read Marx, have you?

>>4052918
"We're not paid to teach."

We really aren't. We're paid to produce high quality research. Undergraduates are a money lube that lets us sit in rooms thinking obscure shit that only we want to read.

Some of us do bother to teach, out of pride, or due to some obscure political mission about the class overturning capitalism, or religious vocation; but, at the end of the day, we're not paid to teach.

Also, where I work the minimum "small group" class size is about 30. There's no way you can actually "teach" academic thought in a group that size. And the mission of the University has always been, in relation to teaching, giving undergraduates an opportunity to teach themselves.

>>4052908
Your poor father. He has my condolences and pity.

>>4052729
>I don't have any desire to improve my situation, because I've come to believe that, due to environmental forces out of my control, this is my lot in life, and there ain't shit that can be done about it.
Have you considered reading Germinal by Emile Zola?

>>4052890
It couldn't have been Derrida. Every day he must drink champagne in a beautiful home. It was a condition of his appointment. Poor Derrida.

>>4052882
Given they're talking about "textbooks" instead of "books" or even "Monographs and journal articles" I think it indicates that they're a high schooler.

"Valid documents" seems to mean "accurately transmitted..." etc., what we'd consider as a basically acceptable primary source before engaging in an analysis of bias.

>>4052871
When conversation starts bogging down into Tu Quoques of proof; I suggest people start discussing their recent reading on the topic.

>>4052861
I eject my products as faeces of crucible of my becoming.

Well I do that when I work freely. When I work for the boss my sweat is sucked.

You should be able to solve this: The relationship of being to work is historically contingent on discourses. Even Foucault could find that.

>>4052849
You've described yourself in a propertarian manner, as the labourer-who-sells-itself. This is described as a "consciousness of the working-class-in-itself" as the object of capital, as the seller of labour power in exchange for a wage.

Marxism describes the working class's own process of becoming -for-itself, a class with its own vision of social organisation, not produced out of being forced into wage labour by the "choice" of starvation.

I'm suggesting that you've drunk the koolade by referring to yourself as property, rather than as a person.

>>4052843
Enjoy being -in-itself.

>>4052834
I think Marx attacks this one explicitly in _Gotha_.

Basically: maintenance costs, depreciation, and the "fruit of the labour" of a kitchen installer is a kitchen, but that fruit includes the fruit of previous labours.

Socialism can't be a gated orchard, but like the fruit that overhangs the public road is the common property.

>>4052826
Your English is very good for an English Second Langauge writer. It looks like what my English First Language students enter university with. Keep working on it!

>>4052824
Theses on Feuerbach was Marx's reaction to the rest of Left Hegelianism btw.

>>4052815
Oh yeah, Lenin in England is like four paragraphs long:
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/it/tronti.htm

>>4052815
>http://roarmag.org/2013/06/autonomy-revolution-movements-democracy-capitalism/
Start with this chapter from Steve Wright's history of the italian autonomists: http://libcom.org/library/class-composition

Then read the rest of Storming Heaven.
Then CyberMarx by Dyer-Witheford (free if you search for it)

I am towards the "traditional workerist" end of the autonomist spectrum.

>>4052813
See my name field? Someone will kill me in a crisis.

>>4052802
If you're chasing the Hegel = Marx thing, read Lukacs _History and Class Consciousness_ before reading Capital I.

Then decide if Hegel is appropriate. Let me check ... my go to Hegel scholar hasn't published his book yet. So I don't have a good recommendation.

>>4052800
Let me be seductively problematic:

Do mutualists believe in private property?

>>4052787
>>4052788
By the way, most Marx is free on marxists.org
Most workerism is free on libcom.org

You do not have to pay for marxism.

If you're buying a paper copy of capital, I recommend Penguin for its introductions by Mandel. Steal it.

Regarding Calculation, given that he's a philosopher, I'd recommend he jump straight into the meaty critique of Marx's failure to adequately specify transformation of values into prices. I don't see this as problematic, but I'm Autonomist.

[Autonomists view Capitalism as much more "politically" enforced than, say, Trots like Mandel. We also talk a lot more about continuing primary accumulation as a deferral of crisis by OCC=100%]

>>4052773
Neh, why not just direct him straight to Bohm-Bawerk and the general calculation debate immediately after Volume I?

>>4052745
Read _Contribution to a Critique_ (novella length)
Then _Theses on Feuerback_ (pamphlet)
Then _Wages Price and Profit_ (novel length)
Then _Critique of the Gotha Programme_ (pamphlet)

Then read the chapter on Primitive Accumulation in Kapital I.

Then read _Reading Capital Politically_ or Dave Harvey.

Then Start Capital. (You can skip the introduction by Mandel if you've done that background reading).