/lit/ - Literature

>>19350784
Just like OP and the majority of /lit/ lol

>>19305495
>No, we're discussing what are the factors of production necessary to produce a commodity. We are not discussing some general concept like "human social organisation"
The factors of production necessary to produce a commodity are nothing but human social organization built by human activity. This is what differentiates it from land and makes it impossible to reduce all value to 'land' in an analysis of human social organization.
>Why is labour the essence of humanity and not land?
Land is not uniquely human, in fact it is outside of humanity. Whereas labour is entirely human and it is what differentiates us from land in general (nature). We produce tools, build, and shape our environment through labour on a level unparalleled.
>Holy shit, do I actually know more Marx than you?
No. Read Marx's Critique of the Gotha Programme starting from "But" on page 12 & ending with "meaning" on page 14. This is where he dismantles the Lassallean idea of every individual getting the full value of their labour directly.
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/C16-Critique-of-the-Gotha-Program-1st-Printing.pdf
> the fact is that the planned socialist economies of the 20th century were a miserable failure in performance terms vs capitalist market economies
This is true, but I believe, and perhaps this is just a leap of faith, that the viability of the planned economy in abstract was proved by its successes in the twentieth century. All that is needed now is to learn from the failure of twentieth-century attempts at socialist construction and build a new socialism. Check out Paul Cockshott's work on socialist economics if you want to read on this at all.