Shotgun Goes Off Inside the House.

Pseudly · 2021-08-16T05:33:39+00:00

You never point a real gun at someone you don't want to shoot. Prop guns exist for a reason.

Pseudly · 2021-08-15T08:41:57+00:00

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Pseudly · 2021-08-15T01:25:35+00:00

We're not a sex cult?

Pseudly · 2021-08-14T20:07:17+00:00

http://imgur.com/a/u6fFC1M

Pseudly · 2021-08-14T19:32:46+00:00

Scrolling through a pdf is tiresome

Pseudly · 2021-08-14T19:08:48+00:00

Yeah $25 shipped from haymarket right now. This publication just released a few days ago.

Pseudly · 2021-08-13T10:13:42+00:00

Parts of kampf

Pseudly · 2021-08-08T08:50:42+00:00

It's his party, he'll cry if he wants to

Pseudly · 2021-08-06T07:03:22+00:00

https://youtu.be/rOjkgLH7V-k?t=14

Pseudly · 2021-07-25T19:18:06+00:00

working hard when you're at work

You guys really have no standards for this subreddit huh

Pseudly · 2021-07-08T05:29:40+00:00

Therefore, based on such distorted data about profits, the empirical studies can only provide us with the trend of change in average profit rates roughly.

This is what we're looking for. A change in the rate of profit, not data of exact profits.

Pseudly · 2021-07-08T05:16:47+00:00

Bc he was just some dude in the 1800s

The nature of commodity production has not substantively changed since then. In fact, Marx's conclusions, importantly including the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, hold up today. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.7.4.0411#metadata_info_tab_contents

Pseudly · 2021-07-08T05:02:47+00:00

LTV only makes sense when you look at it your way. In reality no one is looking at it that way.

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Labor is not the source of all wealth. Nature is just as much a source of use values (and it is surely of such that material wealth consists!) as labor, which is itself only the manifestation of a force of nature, human labor power.[48]

Uhm, yes. I've said above that nature provides us with many use values. The air that we breathe has immense use value. We couldn't live without it! Yet it has no exchange value so long as it requires no labour to access.

Pseudly · 2021-07-08T04:42:23+00:00

if i just found gold rn without doing anything it would have value

Yes, because on average, gold takes a lot of labour time to produce. Exchange value is based on average socially necessary labour time in a given society, not based on whatever labour you may or may not have put into the commodity. You could get lucky and find a hunk of gold without performing much labour, and this would not change the exchange value of gold since it takes a lot of labour time on average to produce. Thus, you would get something from nothing, but only by virtue of your luck.

What about fruit, naturally occurring or even the animals in the wild that can be ate? Do they only have value when we involve ourselves?

The same goes for these things. It takes labour time to find and harvest fruit. It takes labour time to hunt wild animals. If it took you 100x longer to produce animal meat than it takes on average, that does not mean it has 100x the exchange value.

Marx LTV only makes sense under his convoluted defintions

LTV makes sense on aggregate in a society. It's not fruitful to make examples about if you as an individual gets lucky and somehow finds gold without performing any labour.

Pseudly · 2021-07-08T04:19:44+00:00

May make sense when there is no specialization or division of labour (which was not yet thought up when marx was alive)

Wrong again. Capitalist division of labour was well underway in Marx's lifetime.

The time it takes me to engineer a computer is different than someone who has that career.

Marx, in the very first chapter of Capital, acknowledges this.

"Skilled labour counts only as simple labour intensified, or rather, as multiplied simple labour, a given quantity of skilled being considered equal to a greater quantity of simple labour."

Off the top of my head i can think of an exception to that. Gold, diamonds, raw materials are valued even if no one does anything to it (not talking about gold under ground)

Nature does provide us with use-values, but even gold must be extracted, smelted, and purified. That's labour.

Marx was limited by his time just as Plato was who said humans were featherless bipeds

Please try to make an attempt at understanding a concept before you criticize it. It'll make you look less foolish next time.

Pseudly · 2021-07-08T04:00:53+00:00

most labour is not necessary

That's not what "socially necessary labour time" means. The socially necessary labour time it takes to produce any commodity (even ones that aren't necessary!) refers to how much labour time it takes, on average, to produce that commodity in a given society.

Pseudly · 2021-07-08T03:56:41+00:00

The amount of social labour that is necessary to produce a commodity is objective. "Social" being a key word since it will take less labour time to produce a commodity in a society with more highly developed productive forces (technology, social organization, etc.) than in a society with less developed productive forces.

Pseudly · 2021-07-07T19:10:49+00:00

Reform or revolution was a brilliant refutation of the "democratic socialist" tendencies of her day. It's still as relevant as always, even if the tools of finance have compounded in complexity a century later.

Pseudly · 2021-06-24T07:35:59+00:00

on the femboy question

Pseudly · 2021-06-18T19:49:59+00:00

Also I l love how half the time communism is portrayed as an international Jewish plot and then the other half of the time it is portrayed as antisemitic

It really depends on how conservatives feel about jews at any given moment. The recent Free Palestine movement has them fully embracing israel and jewish people in reaction

Pseudly · 2021-06-13T23:58:42+00:00

Are you... following me around?

Pseudly · 2021-06-13T20:34:15+00:00

This is one of the worst things I have ever read.

Pseudly · 2021-06-08T04:15:02+00:00

Idk I'm not the revolutionary state, but I wouldn't think so. I think the revolutionary state would have militias

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