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reading something and having fun Marx's Economic Doctrine
HOLY FUCK HE SAID THE THING
i don’t get the land and soil part so far
okay, eyes basically glazed over the last part. i think i’ll take a rest before coming back at all to this
only thing i saw when glazing over and thought for sure i should note down and thik about but idk anything about it aside from word recognition and faintest impressions ->(Co-operative societies, i.e., associations of small peasants, while playing an extremely progressive bourgeois role, only weakens this tendency, without eliminating it; nor must it be forgotten that these co-operative societies do much for the well-to-do peasants, and very little—next to nothing—for the mass of poor peasants; then the associations themselves become exploiters of hired labor.)
#dontgetit
get the first part i THINK where competition between enterprises necessitates extremely comparable profit margins (as price was defined earlier, in my probably faulty understanding,) which is a constraint on design and operations (as in, i can’t get too different from my competitor, let’s say i sell dolls and i make dolls that are higher quality and higher price, but my other competitor does not and C or constant capital is lower), don’t get the ‘branch’ thing STILL and what it actually refers to
he is against this law which i assume is popular and well defined economic theory and my basic outsider understanding or interpretation is that this is the one where it’s like it’s an absolute rule all input eventually returns diminishing payoff, but how does this not apply to soil and land, even if we account for real improvements in technology? (i’m thinking of green revolution/agricultural technology improvements irl, that i admittedy dont know anything useful or expert level about)
as i kept reading it seemed more related to discussing the relation of price, value, constant capital/input in the case of soil and land in selling crops, as naturally one acre of land may not produce same value for input as another
kewlio
given this i understand at least in the relation to maximizing surplus value, and the idea marx and lenin both acknowledge where the pocketed value does not go merely to the individual capitalist, but for the sake of the enterprise’s survival, more capital or the expansion of the means of production/improvement
is this a correct understanding (below)
spoiler
what’s the branch first off, did i i miss something
next part i understand as let’s say enterprise A and B sell the same commodity. obviously both must at least sell the commodity for the cost they expended in production!!! let’s say B is less effective and so the commodity is more expensive at the most basic! but to maintain the same profit margins and capital of enterprise A and continue competing they must upmark it to have the same profits as enterprise A in the end… which should be right, no?
now i do not get it again it feels :(