/lit/ - Literature

>>20595690
Gave it a quick read, then enjoyed it so much I ran through it again, slower and If genius is a mystery of consciousness, a visit to your wordworld felt like sitting shoeless and crosslegged in the Hagia Sophia and humbly you accepted a plate of my cottondew review hardtack and linguistic jelly.

I can feel the thunder of your lighteninglike thoughts—through your words—suddenly I was somewhere else—it was like having been goaded, but I’d never seen any teratoid paragraphs sending me to well I remember it so well, the shapes and forms of the sensations, the impressions so deeply ingrained that they’d become tactile, so much so that far off places despite the cause of such intense fantasies being a black and twisted tunneling through my visual cortex barking and yapping away.

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>>18303622
>Are you sure you didn't mean "intangible goods"? Goods that can't be easily sold or bought and therefore can't be easily priced. Examples: brands, how much does the name "ferrari" cost? This is an accounting term though.
What it really means is that they're intangible. I have no idea what the cost to replace a sports car engine costs. You could obviously tell me but I wouldn't understand it, so it'd probably be misleading to say that something like this can't be priced. I don't see the point in this. The vast majority of content being sold is to non-technical people. The same could be said about music or video games or whatever.

> If he doesn't then he concedes that there is no surplus-value, no systematic exploitation in the capitalist system, no class struggle (in this regard) and that capitalism is not approaching it's imminent end (another unfalsifiable hypothesis). Of course, that doesn't mean that the world is perfect but it does make marxism pointless.
Anthropologically, Marx offers a measure of what he perceived of capitalism. This is how he chooses to define it:

Marxism is essentially the scientific expression of a materialist, historical materialist view of the world. In the principal contradiction of all societies, between human beings on the one hand, and the relations of production on the other hand, the latter is the dominant form and alone reproduces the former. . .