I can’t be bothered to look them up right now but I’ve commented before (though I think not in these words) on my views on the category “use value” in Marx as being a philosophically minimalist category and having little normative quality to it, at least when used analytically. That is, use values aren’t good or bad, for one thing. Anyhow, this bit of William Cronon’s Changes In The Land might be useful if I ever want to actually make the case for this. (more…)
September 22, 2008
… illustrates use value?
January 4, 2006
… is unmediated use value?
What follows started out as a comment on a post Tim wrote over at the Wrong Side of Capitalism. I decided to make it an entry here not out of any assessment of it’s quality but because it got too long and I started to feel like it may be overbearing of me to leave all of this in Tim’s comment section. I just cut and pasted the entry from his comment box to here, so it’s still in the form of a comment to Tim. All of this is stuff I want to think and read and write more on, which is to say, my mind is not entirely made up. I recommend reading Tim’s post.
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