This note critically evaluates the ‘macro-monetary’ interpretation of Marx’s theory presented by Moseley (2000) in opposition to the traditional view rooted in the early work of Bortkiewicz. The first part argues that the textual evidence from Capital sharply contrasts with the basic premise of Moseley’s interpretation, i.e. the claim that the inputs of constant capital and variable capital ent...

This paper examines the influences of Aristotelian moral economic thought on Marx’s labor theory. This paper looks at certain moral ethical frameworks attributed to Aristotle and later used by Marx in developing his ideas on communism. The similarities between Marx’s labor theory and Aristotle’s ethical theories, including those on human flourishing (eudaimonia), justice and exchange, will be e...

right, or the power of demanding services in general, which may, or may not be commodities’ (Ibid: 35). The most advanced form of such transferable debt had no intrinsic value, typically paper, so the intrinsic value of silver or gold as money was ‘secondary’ (Ibid: 45). Gold and silver were only the most civilised of a lineage of representatives of labour, including shells and chocolate — clea...

Marcus Panning, Petra Emmerich, Stephan Ölschläger, Sergiusz Bojenko, Lamine Koivogui, Arthur Marx, Peter Clement Lugala, Stephan Günther, Daniel G. Bausch, and Christian Drosten Author affi liations: Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany (M. Panning, P. Emmerich, S. Ölschläger, S. Günther, C. Drosten); United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone (S...

Life-threatening cardiomyopathy is a severe, but common, complication associated with severe trauma or sepsis. Several signaling pathways involved in apoptosis and necroptosis are linked to trauma- or sepsis-associated cardiomyopathy. However, the underling causative factors are still debatable. Heparan sulfate (HS) fragments belong to the class of danger/damage-associated molecular patterns li...

Marx and Freud pointed out our blindness about the unconscious causes of individual and collective behavior. Their revolutionary intent was to liberate humanity by taking conscious control. Jaspers' evaluation of historical materialism and psychoanalysis turns on the contested relations between objectivity and subjectivity and science and philosophy. He tracks their two systems through stages: ...