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Outrageous manipulation by the west and its media to destroy a nation. Lies, deception and hypocrisy to manufacture consent.
Definitely NATO is a NAzi Terrorist Organisation.

The chapter on Class and Political Economy.
Harvey helps in dealing with the copious notes and quotations made by Marx in his study. Also hints to several key concepts buried amongst those references.

The final section on class and political economy. It is plagued by Marx's reading notes and quotations. But, in between, one can find plenty of his brilliance.
P. 831: on the theory of alienation, cleverly summarised; which is a great point against the modern day Taylorism "sense of ownership" peddled to labour for more productivity.
P. 853: on interest and profit; 856 on wealth.

Chapter on the rate of profit and related laws. Harvey makes interesting observations of the dire situation of the 2020s compared to the 1858 acute account by Marx. But still laments that the notes taken by Marx are not the same as the book written ten year later.

The falling rate of profit, and key laws of capitalism are dealt by Marx. Mostly the one that establishes that profit is the product of capital, related to it by revenue.
Also take note, on pages 769-770, a couple of paragraphs where Marx tracks back to the genesis of capitalism with the creation of wage labour.

Marx profundiza su estudio sobre capital fijo y circulante. Hace interesantes observaciones acerca del desarrollo de infraestructura como medio de creación de valor, pero con retornos mucho más espaciados que el capital circulante. La invención se vuelve un negocio.

Chapter on Fixed and Circulating Capital.
It overlaps the previous one on the fixed capital issue, as Marx choses to take notes with several references to previous studies.
Harvey somewhat gets whiny about some "incomplete or vague" approaches by Marx, but he elaborates further down the pages.

The question of fixed capital, and how it sits in the process of value creation. Also, how it is a well-used escape route for today's wannabe oligarchs, who launder through white elephants.
Harvey observes that the accusation of determinism thrown to Marx, falls in vacuum, after the fact the 2022 resembles accurately 1858.

El poder del capital fijo.
Interesante sección de difícil lectura, no por los conceptos, sino por la absurda traducción que se ocupa solamente del alemán al castellano, mientras las múltiples referencias, citas y la propia taquigrafía de Marx en francés e inglés, son impresas literalmente y traducidas al pie de página, cortando la ilación de la idea.

The 9th chapter deals with fixed capital and machinery. Harvey immerses himself into the concepts of automation and technology, both used to disempower the workers n order to obtain productivity forced by capitalist competition.

Finished the section named by Harvey "The Power of Fixed Capital".
It is very enlightening about machinery, equipment and the capitalism tendency to automatization in order to fulfil the compulsion of competition.
Also, AI and whatnot devised to disempower the workers.

Finalmente acabo hasta el capítulo que Harvey denomina tiempos de rotación y la circulación de la capacidad de trabajo.

Chapter 8, finished. Took a while, mostly because of the very enlightening digression. There is an overlapping on the fixed capital issue.

Finished the section Turnover times and the circulation of labour capacity [Harvey Ch. 8]

Finished the section on the space and time of turnover and the realisation of capital.
When I read Capital Vol. 2 I noticed that Marx could run an experimental design by hand!
Many a critic can’t understand that he could abstract a variable for study, while keeping the others constant or in the background.

Chapter 5 Capital’s Becoming: Past, Present and Future.
“ Thus endeth, as they say, the first lesson on how to investigate the becoming of capital with historical materialist tools.”
But after few pages, Harvey actually reads the famous Precapitalist Economic Formations section. And just like Hobsbawm, falls shy off target. Still interesting concepts about Marx’s double consciousness.

Section on capital becoming.
Marx detailed the historical process of the pre capitalist economic formations dissolution in the very famous chapter that became a separate book. Barely understood by many.

Chapter 5 Production and Realization
Pages 373-458
Harvey did really enjoy this section. Several key concepts are developed. And he quotes on p 181 how Marx with a language worthy of James Joyce, in a single sentence condensed his theory on the relation between production and realisation.

Finalizada la sección sobre la producción de capital.
Leer cuidadosamente los capítulos finales, en los cuales Marx desarrolla varios conceptos claves, y en la página 413 en un lenguaje James Joyceano, en una sola oración condensa la teoría de la relación entre producción y realización.

Production and realisation.
I’ve definitely held to the concept that wealth is the creation of disposable time.
Also surplus value is the appropriation of surplus labour.

Sección del tránsito del proceso de producción del capital hacia el proceso de circulación.

Harvey reads the production and surplus value section, with an interesting discovery on how Marx is actually talking to himself.
Some unfortunate examples hobbled the narrative.

La sección finalizada tenía como eje central, el encuentro entre las mensurables , materiales relaciones de producción y las immateriales, fantasmales relaciones sociales subyacentes que las rigen para producir plusvalía.

In this section there is a main concern that the economists couldn’t understand. The meeting of the material, measurable relation of production with the immaterial social relations that are hidden behind and above it, the historical quality of capital: it cannot exist without free surplus value.

Finished the first section of the chapter on capital; what Harvey calls alien capital meets alien labour.

Primera sección del capítulo sobre el capital.

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Never trust the Catholic Church, or any denomination at all. It is the oldest reactionary political power, and one or two curas de izquierda are just tactical allies on action unity at most.
Funny the Charismaniatics staged revelations, same as here.

“”..Since the days of the legendary Chief William Parker in the early 1950s, the LAPD has been regarded by L.A.’s Black community as a redneck army of occupation.””
Make Apartheid and Genocide Acceptable.

Reached part III Home. The murderous American oligarchs decided to genocide dissidents.