ComradeSharkfucker

“I’ve seen it, the mask of humanity fall from capital—it has to take it off to kill everyone—everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed. And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death… the sweetest most courageous people in the world. You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you know that the bourgeois are not human.”

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  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlBanned from communitytoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldYou okay babe?
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    4 days ago

    Haha, you should try using the median income to adjust for outlier skewing. Also while it is true that constant capital becomes variable capital if you follow the production chain you should keep in mind that much of this production is done in the imperial periphery (and therefore not necessarily reflected in GDP per capita). Their exploitation is directly responsible for the purchasing power of our wages, in a way an hour of our labor purchases many many hours of theirs. If you are going to eliminate constant capital through the means suggested in your process, then you need to include the wages of workers of the periphery (often below the value of their labor power) in your average.



  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlBanned from communitytoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldYou okay babe?
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    4 days ago

    Okay so I was gonna respond sooner but I was super baked and unable to answer this when I saw it last night.

    You should read Wage Labour and Capital by Marx for some added context, it is short.

    Basically the value of a commodity is calculate by c + v + s. c being constant capital (the value of the means of production that has been degraded to create the commodity, hard to calculate without good info), v is the amount of paid labor (variable capital), and s being surplus value is the unpaid labor.

    To calculate the value of your labor all you need to know is the constant capital used to produce whatever commodity you produce and the value of said commodity. By including your wage as v you can calculate the surplus value and then compare them to see what share of the value you produce you actually recieve.

    It gets harder when you aren’t directly producing commodities which my friend was.





















  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlBanned from communitytoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldPersonalized Political Spectrum
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    11 days ago

    The biggest similarity is that we are both willing to use violence to oppress our enemies. The difference is that the enemy of communists are our oppressors and the enemy of fascist is whoever they decide to not like at the moment. The ultimate attack on capital (communism) is materially different than the ultimate defense of capital (fascism).

    Fun fact though, liberalism also supports violence (or at least passively accepts it) as long as it is mostly external. We don’t get to choose non-violence. You can attack the people doing violence, join the people doing violence, or accept the people doing violence.