Ancestors

Written by AGP Soundsystem on 2025-02-02 at 05:01

i read the first 5 chapters of the wealth of nations today and then immediately wondered why i did that

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Toot

Written by AGP Soundsystem on 2025-02-02 at 05:04

like i wanted context to inform my reading of capital i guess but this text sure is the uh. sure is

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Descendants

Written by AGP Soundsystem on 2025-02-02 at 05:05

and yet the world based its entire economic policy on this book that continually appeals to images of "savagery"

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Written by AGP Soundsystem on 2025-02-02 at 05:10

at the same time if you want to know where the labor theory of value originates it's important context i guess. i just don't like the way adam smith writes at all, it lacks any semblance of rigor and i guess that populism is what made this book so influential. he spends ages talking about the history of things with very little citation or any purpose, most chapters could end up distilled to half their length, whatever

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Written by ليلى النحلة on 2025-02-02 at 05:16

@tulips oh isn't that one of the books that helped originate the whole. western conception of the State of Nature or whateverthefuck

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Written by im da demon king babey on 2025-02-02 at 05:15

@tulips many such cases sadly

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Written by im da demon king babey on 2025-02-02 at 05:16

@tulips like hobbes does this and everything after hobbes is low-key just a variation on hobbes

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Written by im da demon king babey on 2025-02-02 at 05:19

@tulips this is a thing i was annoying about in my political philosophy class, id insist that every theory of the state was Leviathan if you peeled back the layers

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Written by AGP Soundsystem on 2025-02-02 at 05:24

@ElusiveConfection it's interesting because on one hand smith makes the argument that there is no difference fundamentally between the philosopher and the tradesman and on the other hand he still continues to refer to these images that directly contradict that

but what he ostensibly means is that the "civilized world" may be different, but within that world thers is no difference in fundamental being between different skilled or unskilled labor. i fuckin. guess

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