BitterLittleFlower 10-06-2009, 04:35 PM When I'm thinking about me, something I want to know, regardless the applications that knowledge may have to the greater good, I get timid; if I'm not thinking about me, look out, I ran out in the road to stop two cars coming from the opposite direction when m...

anaxarchos
10-06-2009, 10:15 AM

... an angry one.

Kid of the Black Hole
10-06-2009, 08:33 AM

I think Pinko was posing this very question about Aristotle a while back. Not sure if he was asking for elaboration on this passage or if he was confused about it or what. But I do remember it coming up

Dhalgren 10-06-2009, 08:11 AM but this passage is just absolutely a killer! "Aristotle therefore, himself, tells us what barred the way to his further analysis; it was the absence of any concept of value. What is that equal something, that common substance, which admits of the value of the beds bein...

Two Americas
10-06-2009, 07:42 AM

Well said.

Two Americas
10-06-2009, 07:40 AM

Is linen ever used to make coats, anyway? Wouldn't be very warm. I know Pat Nixon had a "cloth coat" LOL.

Kid of the Black Hole
10-06-2009, 07:23 AM

luckily I'm so dense I didn't even realize that so it'd didn't throw me

blindpig 10-06-2009, 06:47 AM It is our time on earth, it's all we got. Is one person's time on earth worth more than another's? For it to be stolen from us is no small crime. That it should be miserable, onerous, is insult to injury. Capitalism takes the essence of our lives and gives it to others ...

Dhalgren 10-06-2009, 06:17 AM of commodities being discussed (it threw me a bit). The commodities in question could be anything - ax-handles and shoes, anvils and shawls, wagons and railroad ties. I was kind of confused at first because I kept thinking about the linen being used to make the coat! (L...

BitterLittleFlower
10-06-2009, 03:43 AM

Labor involved in spinning wool, weaving wool, equal to labor involved in same with linen maybe? so labor value the same?