Suffering Free Markets: A “Classical” Buddhist Critique of Capitalist Conceptions of “Value”

This is a critique of capitalist conceptions of “value” that draws on Diñnāga’s and Dharmakīrti’s “exclusion of the other” semantics, Marxist philosophy, and poststructuralist feminist and queer theories. It diagnoses sufferings that are integral to the legal subject of capitalist economics, and raises questions about current interpretations of Buddhist appeals to “conventional truth.”