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

=> More informations about this toot | More toots from tulips@shrike.club

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

=> More informations about this toot | More toots from tulips@shrike.club

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"

=> More informations about this toot | More toots from tulips@shrike.club

Toot

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

=> More informations about this toot | More toots from tulips@shrike.club

Descendants

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

=> More informations about this toot | More toots from lunabee@cathode.church