From the taste of wheat it is not possible to tell who produced it, a Russian serf, a French peasant or an English capitalist. Although use-values serve social needs and therefore exist within the social framework, they do not express the social relations of production. Marx, Critique of Political Economy (1859) We don't need a … Continue reading notes on Rancière’s “Concept of Critique and the Critique of Political Economy”

Never written an editorial post before on here, so--hello! I'm Crane, a lapsed philosophy academic and adjunct currently working in the Chicago area. At the risk of carrying my education out in public, I'm planning to publish short entries here bi-weekly as I try to get a handle on Marxism and radical traditions of thought … Continue reading Back to Blogging