Is the market price of Napoleon's letters a counter-example to Marx's theory of value? Come to think of it, what IS Marx's theory of value? Also, some stuff about the Sorites Paradox.

Here’s the recording for the twenty-third session of our Substack philosophy class for paid subscribers. We read the “Marxian Exploitation” of Ch. 8 of Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Next Tuesday, we’ll finish the chapter, then I think we should be able to do a session each on the last two chapters of the book and then we can move on to reading G.A. Cohen’s response-book Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality. Oh, and remember that this and all the previous class recordings so far can be found here.

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