ComradeRat

Have listened to part of one episode of chapo once but otherwise never

I watched a few of the cushvlogs before it being video turned me off

neofeudalism

Its called capitalism. Capitalism has always been and always will be like this. Capitalism has always had a power imbalance and an underclass with no political power or hopes of advancement. There has been no qualitative changes in the fundamental mode of production since the 19th century, just accelerations and increases in scale. The who idea of "neofeudalism" exists merely to whitewash capitalism by saying everything happening today isnt "real" capitalism

Wrt misrepresentation, i'll repost what I already wrote earlier both demonstrating the malicious editing, and explaining how these edits are more than mere formatting, and change the meaning of what harvey said to create a strawman punching bag:

author writes (my emphasis):

While Harvey is saying:

“Marx abstracts from all the useful qualities of commodities because we cannot perform experiments.

But the author has actually cut out massive portions of this quote, without indicating it, to massively change the meaning. What harvey actually wrote is (my emphasis):

[Marx] abstracts from the incredible diversity of human wants, needs and desires, as well as from the immense variety of commodities and their weights and measures, in order to focus on the unitary concept of a use-value. This is illustrative of an argument he makes in one of the prefaces, where he says that the problem for social science is that we cannot isolate and conduct controlled experiments in a laboratory, so we have to use the power of abstraction instead in order to arrive at similar scientific forms of understanding.

I.e. harvey is not saying that marx abstracts from the diversity of needs, wants, etc, because we cannot preform experiments, but rather that marx's need to abstract from the diversity of needs, wants, etc is illustrative of an argument marx makes in the prefaces about his method.

I agree with you on the front of harvey not being particularly revolutionary and displaying this bias in his work

I can understand this criticism of labour and third thing, but I do not recall it being present in Harveys companion, and i have less than no respect for people like the author of the article who maliciously edit quotes (as i demonstrated above) instead of engaging in good faith. To me it seems like pointless and petty wannabe academic dramastirring on the authors part more than any principled analysis, much less any aim to work towards comminism

I maintain my points about cryptic and a priori, the first being objectively true about marx as read by most people in the modern day (again, even his robinson crusoe examples have become cryptic to modern readers) and the latter as not being inherently perjorative (laying out the current state of knowledge is also a priori) and therefore not something to need to defend against accusations of. Edit for more clarity: to be clear, i view there as a distinction between the reviewers claiming marxs whole analysis is a priori, and harvey saying marx starts the book with some rapid fire a priori statements

From a historical perspective the disgust over family having sex (and over bodily functions in general) is a shockingly recent development (only develops with bourgeois society and its large houses and individual beds and rooms). Before then, parents would often have sex in the same room or even the same bed as the children were sleeping

Unfortunately Marx and Engels beat you to it [German Ideology]:

Be cooler if they did

Literally the winning pandemic 2 strategy lol

Castro never lost the rizz afaik, if he were still around he'd turn on that centanarian charm and trump would hand over all the US's nukes to show he's cooler than khrushchev

For those of us following the science, the quarantine never ended

For those of us stuck in the "essential worker" mines, the quarantine never happened

Yeah marx wrote entire volumes of poems for his wife, back when he was a youth. The first Marx biography said they are of biographical rather than literary interest, which is a nice way of saying they arent very good lol

Apparently some of the lines in Heine's poems are from Marx though

On subject of devil, he also made up stories to his daughters about a toymaker who was in debt to the devil

Usually its some sort of reflection of their research output (which is why often the professors best at teaching are not found at the top universities)