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Production and exchange Production and exchange: Part 2 Production and exchange: Part 3

Socially Necessary Labor Time Socially Necessary Labor Time: Part 2

Contradiction Contradiction: Part 2

Value Value: Part 2

Das MudPie Das MudPie: Part 2

Brendan Cooney explains the Law of Value in an excellent ten part video series

The Fetishism of Commodities

Introduction Marx Quiz Addendum

I believe that intimacy, together with other social and intellectual practices that are necessary for the reproduction of our collectivity, is being appropriated today by the capitalist machine and, in the same movement, transferred from the collective sphere to that of the nuclear unit and from the sphere of reproduction to that of the market economy.

My intention is to talk about social reproduction in the context of a specific social environment. Social reproduction versus the reproduction of individuals, public versus private, manipulated and regulated versus free and autonomous, frustration and solitude versus joyous cooperation.

It has been about 35 years since the publication of The Arcane of Reproduction: Housework, Prostitution, Labor and Capital, and the world has radically changed since then. Society has changed faster than our capacity to re-forge the theoretical and methodological toolbox at our disposal. It is time to ask: what is happening to the reproductive sphere on a structural level?