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willowMar 1, 2025

istg i’m not doing this on purpose, people keep coming after me

@marzenie there is no central claim its just a
comprehensive analysis of what economic ...
zeeb Today at 17:10
ok,, i am not sure. i am only on part 3 here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?
list=PLfqdvDnX3|bAGzd770mJOFyRI4Khz50U
i think willow would know a lot about this, @willow sorry if you do not want the ping. you do not have to respond.

zeeb Today at 17:51
and also didn't have nice things to say about the utilitarians of their day either
I want to see this
https://philpapers.org/rec/BREMCO-2cant
find the full thing
G. G. Brenkert, Marx's
Critique of Utilitarianism -
PhilPapers
willow Today at 17:55
here's an excerpt from capital lol
[capital pg 758-759 about bentham]

zeeb Today at 17:48
okay, thanks that changes things quite a bit. i just have to learn more about it to have a well informed take.
critique of the gotha programme
I want to check this now

willow Today at 17:55
here's an excerpt from capital lol
Classical political economy has always liked to conceive social capital as a fixed magnitude of a fixed degree of efficiency. But this prejudice was first established as a dogma by the arch-philistine, Jeremy
Bentham, that soberly pedantic and heavy-footed oracle of the 'common sense' of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie. so entham is among philosophers what Martin Tupper* is among poets.
Both could only have been manufactured in England.»
51. Bentham is a purely English pbenomenon.
Not even excepting our own
Christian Wolff,* in no time and in no country has the most
homespun manufacturer of commonplaces ever strutted about in so self-
satisfied a way. The principle of utility was no discovery made by Bentham, He simply reproduced in his dull way what Helvetius and other Frenchmen had said with wit and ingenuity in the eighteenth century. To know what is useful for a dog, one must investigate the nature of dogs. This nature is not
• Christian Wolff (1679-1754) was a German philosopber and mathe-matician, a disciple of Leibniz. His philosophy was in fact a common-sense adaptation and watering down of Leibniz's ideas, and it beld the feld in
Germany from the 1730s until Kant's time.
• Martin Tupper (1810-89) was an English man of letters and poet. His ame in Victorian times rested on his Proverbial Philosophy (1838-67), a lons series of commonplace didactic moralizings in blank verse.
The Transformation of Surplus-Value into Capital 759
This dogma in fact renders the commonest phenomena of the production process, for instance its sudden expansions and con-actions, and even accumulation itself, absolutely incompreher sible.

zeeb Today at 17:55
thats hilarious, its scathing. they hate him.
Imao!

March 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM