COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Pandemic, the State-Capitalist Response, Marx's value theory

Seemingly unprecedented NYT editorial on economic crisis and COVID-19 (Coronavirus pandemic): "How to Avoid Complete Economic Destruction"

https://nyti.ms/2U8gIRe


Clearly the bipartisan rush to send U.S. workers money is not any sort of altruism. Instead, while unable in these circumstances to create new vaue, living labor must be sustained to labor as before, as in capitalist production, according to Marx: "While the laborer, by virtue of his labor being of a specialized kind that has a special object (durch die zwecmässige Form der Arbeit), preserves and transfers to the product the value of the means of production, he at the same time, by the mere act of working, creates each instant an additional or new value. (Marx, 1867/1909, 231 [1867/1990, 314–315], quoted by Marcuse, 1941/1999, 308). Marcuse (in Reason and Revolution) emphasizes that the performance of concrete labor, “labor power in action”, preserves value in adding new value. In this pandemic the most devasting propsect (for capitalism) is not the loss of material wealth because people can't work, but the lack of the "gratuitous" service of workers in while creating new value at the same time preserve the value of the existing means of production.

From People Power to Hong Kong Revolt: Can the Philippines Revolution Re-emerge?

Presented today (August 13, 2019) at American Sociogical Meetings in Sheraton Times Square, NYC


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WZ1RLafldZRbQCHIFsllCuGKJmWBv5Ox/view?usp=sharing

American Sociological Association meetings this summer

ASA session on "Revolution and Social Change"

http://tinyurl.com/y6dvka9o

Review of The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence and Response

I just noticed that the original post of this review and my response contained an inaccurate link; I am reposting it here.

https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/7786_the-dunayevskaya-marcuse-fromm-correspondence-1954-1978-review-by-joan-braune/

Comments are welcome

Historical Materialism "Hegel, Marx, and the Necessity and the Necessity and Freedom Dialectic"

http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/news/necessity-and-freedom-dialectic-hegel-and-marx

Marx & Philosophy Review of Books

https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/submissions/

R. Pippin and Marcuse's Hegel's Ontology, Idea of True and Good

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xP91I3nyAn_3K9vFaedsPlykd5UGMjuQ/view?usp=sharing

Chapter 1 of my new book--Hegel, Marx, and the Necessity and Freedom Dialectic: Marxist-Humanism and Critical Theory in the United States https://marxist-humanistdialectics.blogspot.com/2018/03/coming-out-in-may-necessity-and-freedom.html

includes a discussion relevant to a recent interview of the Hegel scholar R. Pippin in the online magazine 3:A.M. 

3:AM: What do you say Hegel meant by the unity of the idea of the true and the idea of the good in the ‘Absolute Idea’?

RP: This is too much for a short answer, or even a long one. It’s really the whole ballgame in Hegel.
https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/hegel/