Life-Value vs Money-Value: Capitalism’s Fatal Category Mistake

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Notes

1. See Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality, 219–20 esp.

2. See McNally, Global Slump, 1–25, esp.

3. McMurtry, What is Good?, vol. 1, 213.

4. See Harvey, Brief History of Neoliberalism.

5. See, e.g., Bookchin, The Modern Crisis, 49; Camfield, We Can Do Better, 11.

6. McMurtry’s first major publication was a close reading of Marx’s entire corpus, which aimed to expose the structural unity of his thought. More recently, he has explicated the precise connections between the basic principles of historical materialism and life-value onto-axiology in Structure of Marx’s Worldview, and “150 Years after Capital.”

7. See, e.g., Foster, Marx’s Ecology.

8. Marx, “Critique of the Gotha Program,” 531.