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Marx's communism = capitalism without capitalism

example · Marxist theory · retold in 3 talks

Marx thought that removing the capitalist form from the system's productive dynamic would leave the dynamic intact or stronger; Žižek argues this is like the woman losing two or three kilos, the obstacle is constitutive of the very thing it appears to obstruct.

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“Marx just thought that at a certain level of development of forces of production, you can take away the capitalist form and the dynamic will remain…Marx didn't see that what he thought is today an obstacle to capitalist development is its only frame.”
53:54 Was will Europa?2014-12-20 · 2:24:57
“the ultimate limit of capitalism is the capitalist himself”
“So this is typical empty rhetoric. You don't have a good argument, so you say 'Oh, it's well-known'”

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53:54 Was will Europa?2014-12-20 · 2:24:57
Marx thought that removing the capitalist form from the system's productive dynamic would leave the dynamic intact or stronger; Žižek argues this is like the woman losing two or three kilos, the obstacle is constitutive of the very thing it appears to obstruct., illustrating objet petit a,Marx's conception of communism,counterfactual logic
Citing Marx, Žižek notes that capitalism's limit is its own development, but argues Marx wrongly believed abolishing the capitalist form would unleash pure dynamics, ignoring that the obstacle is the impetus., illustrating obstacle as impetus
Marx hand-waves that skilled labor reduces to unskilled 'by a well-known process' without ever specifying it, a piece of empty rhetoric that, per David Harvey's 'almost Freudian' analysis, signals a gap in the labor theory of value., illustrating mechanistic reductionism,labor theory of value