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Das Kapital reading group, Week 19, May 6-12. Reading Volume 2, Chapter 1, plus the first section ('Simple Reproduction') of Chapter 2 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Finished vol 1 last night

success all caught up just in time for vol 2

When do you like to eat the banana? in c/[email protected]
AI yearbook lol. such good and helpful technology thank god we have it. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Big Chunus

Das Kapital reading group, Week 15, April 8-14. From Vol. 1, we are reading Chapter 25 parts 4 and 5 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

I've been thinking a lot over the last couple chapters about how some of the ideas we've learned could help explain just how things got so out of hand with the neoliberal turn of the backend of the last century. Here's a couple thoughts I had as maybe contributing factors:

World War II put a serious dent in the world population - google seems to be saying about 3% of the population was killed. In addition, it caused huge infrastructural destruction that needed to be addressed. And finally, the Allied victory represented a major peak of liberal world order - but this means a geographical limitation on areas you can turn to for cheap labor and raw materials, and indeed much of the history of the immediate postwar era is defined by struggles with decolonization movements (India, Algeria, the Suez...) and with the Red menace - in short, barriers to any further expansion of the hegemony of Western capital. So you then have a situation where right after the war, capital has to do a lot of reinvestment just to rebuild itself, and at the same time, there’s not a lot of able-bodied dudes around to do that work (especially Europe, where the Trente Glorieuses particularly strongly felt), nor are there many good opportunities to send capital outside the imperial core. So now capital has to address the labour market imbalance by raising wages, and this is maybe even a bit of a virtuous cycle because raising wages in real terms means also investing in industries to provide the goods those wages get spent on. But these labor market dynamics are a special period rather than a new norm, because eventually the boomers start entering the workforce, China opens up to capital investment, and the Eastern bloc liberalizes after the Soviet Union collapses.

How would you fare???? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

spoiler

    1. Hillary Clinton
    1. Meryl Streep
    1. Michelle Obama
    1. Rosa Luxemburg
    1. Flora Tristan [French-Peruvian writer and socialist activist]
    1. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
    1. Ilhan Omar
    1. Rashida Tlaib
    1. Marine LePen [sic: Le Pen]
    1. Margaret Thatcher
    1. Liz Truss [fmr. PM of the UK]
    1. Theresa May
    1. Mother Theresa [sic: Teresa]
    1. Amy Schumer
    1. Olivia Wilde
    1. Giorgia Melone [sic: Meloni] [PM of Italy]
    1. Melania Trump
    1. Dr Jill Biden
    1. Janet Yellen [U.S. Sec. of the Treasury, fmr. Fed chair]
    1. Chelsea Manning
    1. Marie-Antoinette
    1. Mary Queen of Scots
    1. Ada Lovelace [English mathematician]
    1. Harriet Tubman
    1. Cori Bush [U.S. Representative]
    1. Ayanna Pressley
    1. Janet Mills [Governor of Maine]
    1. Susan Collins [U.S. Senator]
    1. Marsha Blackburn [U.S. Senator]
    1. Catherine de Medici [fmr. Queen of France]
    1. Catherine the Great [fmr. Empress of Russia]
    1. Eleanor Roosevelt
    1. Roseanne [sic: RoseAnn] DeMoro [fmr. National Nurses United director]
    1. Rosalynn Carter
    1. Ivana Trump
    1. Ivanka Trump
    1. Nancy Reagan

❌❌❌ 38. Jane Adams (thinking of fmr. first lady Abigail Adams, possibly mixed up with ACLU co-founder Jane Addams)

    1. Martha Stewart
    1. Mariella [sic: Mariela] Castro (Cuban LGBT rights ativist)
    1. Chelsea Clinton
    1. Marjorie Taylor Greene
    1. Imelda Marcos [fmr. First Lady of the Philippines]
    1. Christine [sic: Cristina] Fernandez de Kirchner [fmr. First Lady, fmr. President, and fmr. VP of Argentina]
    1. Christine Lagarde [President of European Central Bank]
    1. Maxine Waters [U.S. Representative]
    1. Jane Sanders
    1. Hou Yifan [chess player]
    1. Caitlin Clarke [sic: Clark]
    1. Beyoncé
    1. Lady Gaga
    1. Marianne Williamson
    1. Judit Polgar [chess player]
    1. Natalie Wynn [youtuber, AKA ContraPoints]
    1. Abby Thorn [youtuber, AKA PhilosophyTube]
    1. Luna Oi [Vietnamese youtuber]
    1. Aliyah Edwards [basketball player]
    1. Angel Reese [basketball player]
    1. Paige Bueckers [basketball player]
    1. Diana Taurasi [basketball player]
    1. Nikki Haley
    1. Kamala Harris
    1. Amy Klobuchar
    1. Sarah Ruhl [American playwright]
    1. Caryl Churchill [English playwright]
    1. Martha Washington
    1. Tulsi Gabbard
    1. Ana-Maria Avram [Romanian composer]
    1. Lisa Murkowski [US Senator]
    1. Kirsten [sic: Kristen] Stewart
    1. Kirsten [sic: Kyrsten] Sinema
    1. Emma Goldman
    1. Hannah Arendt [German-American political theorist]
    1. Ayn Rand
    1. Susan B. Anthony
    1. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
    1. Emma Stone
    1. Joanne [JK] Rowling
    1. Clara Schumann
    1. Geraldine Ferraro [fmr. nominee for US VP]
    1. Jane Fonda
    1. Joan of Arc

❌❌❌ 83. Kelsey Grammer [American actor, not a woman]

    1. Amber A-Lee Frost [amber]
    1. Amber Rollo [comedian, Matt Christman's wife]
    1. Liz Franczak [TrueAnon]
    1. Cleopatra
    1. Queen Liluokalani [sic: Lili'uokalani] [fmr. Queen of Hawaii]
    1. Chellie Pingree [U.S. Representative]
    1. Jane Austen
    1. Mary Shelley
    1. Rosalynn [sic: Rosalind] Franklin [British chemist]
    1. Marie Curie
    1. Mary Todd Lincoln
    1. Jacquelyn [sic: Jacqueline] Kennedy
    1. Sally Ride
    1. Rebecca Clark [sic: Clarke] [British composer and violist]
    1. Ursula K. LeGuin [sic: Le Guin]
    1. Angela Merkel
    1. Ursula Vonderleien [sic: von der Leyen] [President of the European Commission]

⏱33.5 min

    1. Nicole [sic: Nicola] Sturgeon [fmr. leader of Scottish National Party]
    1. Kim Kardashian
    1. Lana Wachowski
    1. Lily [sic: Lilly] Wachowski

⏱36.5 min

    1. Queen Elizabeth
    1. Queen Victoria
    1. Ghislaine Maxwell
    1. Jenny von Westphalen [wife of Karl Marx]
    1. Arianna [sic: Ariana] Grande
    1. Emily Dickinson

⏱42 min

The only valid criticism of Marx as a philosopher must be that he was too involved in human affairs in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Karl Marx is an idea, a world-historical heroine, light itself

Is Hexbear frying? in c/[email protected]
r/neoliberal is horrified about PoCs discussing colonialism in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 61 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It is getting genuinely scary, I am pretty sure that if a politician was attacked or killed

Oh no, not the politicians!

Das Kapital reading group, Week 10, March 4-10. From Vol. 1, we are reading Chapter 15, sections 6, 7, and 8 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

[A]t the same time, constant changes take place in the sex [...] of the industrial conscripts. [Fowkes p. 583]

Damn, industrialized forced femming confirmed?

is democracy actually good? what would some alternatives be? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

In keeping with the benevolent scientist theme, we could have an academic institution tasked with translating constituent opinions into selections of philosopher kings. Maybe it could be called something like "Election College"

Why does my body do this. Is it stupid? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What? So you're telling me that if I'm not focusing MY ENTIRE MENTAL ENERGY into thinking about the fact that I am currently eating or drinking something, I'm gonna choke and probably die or something?

It's just like this: Me drinking water: "Yes this is a nice cup of water and I am relaxed hmmmm I think I will let my mind wander a bit while I relax drinking this water. Maybe I can think abou-" CHOKES AND FUCKING DIES

Like come the fuck on why is the human body like this. You should be able to fucking tell if something's going down my throat. You do so many other things automatically WHY DO YOU NEED ME TO DEDICATE MY THOUGHTS TO DRINKING/EATING TO MAKE THINGS GO DOWN THROAT WITHOUT KILLING ME GOD DAMMIT

It’s been 3 years since the Biden Junta took over America and criminalized being a white male. There’s not a single white man on TV, music, or video games. How do you survive this genocide bros? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Yeah, it's real tough for us out there these days. The nice thing about being white though is it provides great camouflage during the winter. You just gotta strip nekkid for 3 months a year and the PC Police will never find you. You're on your own the other 9 mos., but that's a 1/4 of your life figured out right there.

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