Find out about this guy

[peaccenicked]

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Glasgow anarcho communist hated labels, wrote prolifically on the history of the broad working class movement. He also helped preserve Scots Law that allowed for common law marriage. A marriage recognised by habit of living together with not need for ceremony or official divorce.

[rcpnz]

Wasn't Aldred they guy who wrote 'Society Of The Spectacle'? Rather odd, I have this situationist tape called 'The End Of Prehistory'('74 I think).

Rather odd stuff. Never really got what they are trying to say. I think they use words to confuse us, a bit like the ICC.

[Valkyrie]

Hey Peacenik, Where've you been???!!! You, Vox and El Che leaving the board!!!! You know you can't do that!

Thanks!!!!!! This is one I haven't heard of. Not even due mention at the Anarchist Archives. They probably don't even know about him. Someone should submit his name.

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archi...ives/index.html (http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/index.html)


Guy Debord wrote "The Society of the Spectacle." There's a new translation if you want to take a look. And no copyright so it can be distributed broadly in any form.

http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord/


Debord was a little avant garde in his writing style... but, we all know what the "Spectacle" stands for. Once you can get your head around it, it's a fairly easy read. I think, one of those break-through pieces of communist literature that's unrivalled and unforgettable. It's not for everyone's taste though!

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist

http://www.nothingness.org/SI/debord.html



http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archi...ives/index.html (http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/index.html)

[rcpnz]

Thanks for the website.

I note you quote E.F.Scumacher. Didn't he write "Small Is Beautiful"? A very interesting book, but in case you claim to be a Marxist, you should know that on the second page it attacks the Labour Theory Of Value.

[peaccenicked]

Hey Paris, Dont worry noone can stay away from che forever.
Or they ll get their head chopped off. ;)

[Valkyrie]

Yeah, Peacenik, I'll personally do it. haha. I am hardly here myself actually.


Yes, Schumacher wrote " Small is Beautiful." I don't think the quote is to be taken as a whole denounciation of Marx's Labor Theory of Value or even much of attack on it. Schumacher was pointing out that Marx's theory, rather, was propped up on man-powered labor as the source and by-product of commodity (rightly so) although overlooking to expound on the extent that raw capital could be extracted from natural resources, thus being coal at the time, and vital in itself, (the crude form, before the laborous task of smelting) as world reliance on it for industrialization and the conditions resulting from that.

This is the quote on page 2:

"one reason for overlooking this vital fact is that we are estranged from reality and inclined to treat as valueless everything we did not make ourselves. Even the great Dr. Marx fell into this devastating error when he formulated his so-called Labor theory of value."