It doesn’t though, saying “no one would hire you if you cost more than you bring in. Therefore some part of your day /majority of your day you are working for a nameless blob of investors, whose only achievement is being born rich”
Communist manifesto abridged:
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, fuck you, abolish surplus value time
:marx-joker:
The intuition is simple. The explanation (nerd shit) fills volumes
The best avenue for agitation is unionism precisely because workers have an implicit understanding of their own relationship to their labor that specifically crashes against the shores of capitalist propaganda, eroding them over time. I don’t care how reactionary or uneducated or stubborn someone is; if they’ve worked for a wage, if they’ve experienced poverty, they will finish your sentences as you’re explaining things. Some areas, the propaganda just feels like common sense to them. But their labor? The counterpropaganda becomes the common sense. And then your job is collectivize their implicit understanding.
What a poetic way to phrase it. Thanks, I might use the crashing waves and erosion metaphor if ever the opportunity arises.
Thanks for the clarification, comrade. Hard agree on the religious communism, too.
How come the cropping on his head is so different between the two images
been reading capital again
this is dank
(ps, if you're reading capital for the first time and having trouble, I found david harvey's lectures helpful)
we need a David Harvey emote, if only to balance out the Rick Wolff ones
Funny enough, I found reading Towards a New Socialism to be helpful in understanding the first 3 chapters of Capital. The authors clearly explain socially necessary labor, which if you get it then you can handle Capital but if you can't you'll struggle).
However, I cannot mention TANS without mentioning that Paul Cockschott is a MASSIVE turbo-TERF and despite co-authoring a good book, he gets reeducation then the wall if the reeducation doesn't stick.
For those who happen to read this, I'd like to add to @star_wraith 's comment that Paul Cockshot also has a great youtube-channel . I'd advise to anyone to watch his videos explaining how the labour theory of value works, and why the the neoclassical subjective theory of value (which is used in basically all of mainstream economics) is wrong: video 1, video 2 , video 3, video 4.
He also has some videos on climate change which are absolutely brilliant. One , two.
His stuff on the evolution from hunter-gatherers to slave economies and feudal systems is also great, just as all his stuff on thermodynamics.
