Notes on From Commodity Production to Sign Production

This paper is an explicit attempt to link socialism and pragmatism by analyzing the resemblance between Marx’s analysis of commodity production and Peirce’s semiotics. I thought from the title of this paper that is was important enough to get the paper from LibGen.

This paper has a strong overlap with my proposed project of “semiotics of values”. My recent thought has drawn a deeper connection between Dewey and Marx, with Dewey’s more dynamic, interaction-oriented approach to logic and commitment to “perfectionism”.

Biosemiotics draws on Peirce, while enactivism draws more on Dewey. In my limited reading of biosemiotics, it seems to have a Deweyian flavor.