Did Vaush ever say anything about Marx's Racism?

One of the primary responses to Marx is a response to the Labour Theory of Value. Specifically, that Marx doesn't account for subjective value.

Take artist A and B.

A is a brilliant savant who makes work x.

B is a studious artist who lacks the talent of A but learned in university and produces y.

X was produced in two hours and is valued more than y by the art scene. B has to work 4 hours for y.

B had to work twice as long to produce something worth less than X.

The retort from the Marxists is that Marx only accounted for a specific kind of labour. Productive labour. That labour which Stokes the current economic system. Art is a different matter entirely.

As a personal quibble, I think Marx is far too quick to discard some important parts of Hegel. Particularly, the historical limits on our ability to either know facts or predict with absolute certainty the future. My personal Idealism notwithstanding, Marx does away with the transcendental in a way I don't find satisfactory, even as someone who personally disagrees with Hegelian Transcendentalism. Marx might be correct about Capitalism containing the conditions which will lead to its downfall, that's just true of a lot of systems of commerce but there are problems with his writings.

But then, you know, that's any philosophy. We find the weaknesses in theory and adjust, maturing things. That right there is the weakness of Marx. He assumes too much and modern leftists can't escape him but it remains the case that you don't need to be a Marxist qua Marx to be a leftist.

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