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The real de-Stalinization was abandoning the shorter workweek.
"The length of the working day. Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow. The USSR will have the shortest working day in the world and the shortest working week." Soviet poster, 1960
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My father (a conservative) asked me, "Why are you a communist?" And I didn't give a labor theory bullshit answer. I told him, "I love you and wanted to spend more time with you when I was a kid, but you were always at work. I don't want any other kid to feel that way."
It doesn't cost a dime to reduce the work week and stay home with your kids...
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@briebriejoy
You're free to read my blog or Marx on how the workweek could be drastically reduced. Work is just an expenditure of energy. Labor would be voluntary. We cld eventually have a 1 hour workweek if we really wanted to. All early scientific discoveries were by people w/ free time
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"I'm not a good musician; I hardly know my way around the guitar; my singings okay--that's not what made this. It's you, and the struggles in your life."
And the Left will continue to shit on this guy.
Our working class Marxist king
@AintGottaDollar
dropped a new video.
Listen to the words he says here. I don't know how anyone can't genuinely agree with his message. He seems like a good dude.
⚠️ No fudge rounds were discussed 😭
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No. He did just fine.
He located the state as the source of impoverishment---just as Marx and Engels predicted.
Trying to dismiss his lived experiences---so you can plug your fucking stupid digi-currency that will never happen---is, dare I say, corrupt.
Unpopular opinion: Oliver may have tapped into the zeitgeist but misses the mark slightly. It’s not about the rich, it’s about the corrupt. There’s a danger in simplifying into haves vs have-nots and that danger is a descent into collectivism. The zeitgeist needs
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Covid normalization could potentially kill the mode of production if enough people get disabled/die prematurely. This is the same as reducing unpaid labor hours and the source of profit altogether. I’d rather this not happen but twas a blunder by the State to “let it rip.”
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This woman needs communism.
States are out of control and squeezing every last drop of surplus value out of them, atop of taxing them to death, and making them pay % on debt they didn't ask for.
Send the state to hell c/o: the free peoples of Earth.
Cost of living crisis is pushing people to the edge.
People feel trapped, and hopeless, not knowing what to do to get out of this situation.
Canada is broken 🚨🚨🚨
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And that's why they weren't communism (or even socialism). You're free to read my blog where I talk about this very topic about how none of these nations were communist for those very reasons of abandoning shorter workweeks.
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If you read this quote, who might you think it's from? David Graeber? Moishe Postone? Some de-growth hackademic?
Nope.
Benjamin Franklin.
He was talking about "bullshit jobs" before anyone.
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MAGACommunism has to get beyond Leftist bs.
1 Wall St. is not in control; the state is (they own the $)
2 Multipolarity is idealism; capital is unipolar (v1; ch25)
3 "Monopoly capital" is not a problem; "one capital kills many"
4 Money is not wealth; free-time is (Grundrisse)
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: this should be Haz's bread and butter.
Want to stick it in the Left's eye?
Ask MAGA about deficits and defunding the state.
Ask them if the New Deal is working for them right now.
Ask them if they think SHORTER WORK HOURS is…
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When Marx says free-time is wealth, people scoff.
When Buffet says it, he's an oracle.
"If there was anything left on my bucket list, I would have done it. Money has no utility to me. Time has utility to me."
~ Warren Buffett
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This is because the revolutionary subject isn't the working class---and never was. It's CAPITAL.
Once you understand there is no outside of capital, and that dead labor, not living labor, is the source of emancipation, you'll realize how irrelevant class is to strategy.
The working class has been abandoned as the revolutionary subject and replaced with a post-modern fetish for the generality of the "marginalized", where the illusion of oppression supercedes the crushing material reality of those with "wrong think"
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Some of you communists are still stuck in 1917. Get off your lazy fucking asses and re-assess your position.
The only thing preserving Lenin is that dank ass tomb he's resting in.
The mode of production has moved on entirely. Your political-economy doesn't explain it.
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From Nixon's speech "Prosperity And The Economic Health Of The Nation" (1956).
Although he abandoned this, he was talking about unleashing the productive forces and the General Intellect *67 yrs ago!*
And we got communists talking about "communism in 100 yrs."
Fuck you.
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Marxists believe "all that is solid melts into air"...except the fucking state.
It's apparently made out of whatever is inside Wolverine.
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It's a mistake not to understand Keynesianism, Samuelson's attempt to synthesize it with neoclassicalism, the ZLB problem, Bernanke Doctrine, and everything that came after. If you don't, you have zero clue how the state extends the shelf-life of capital.
Stop being idiots.
I’ve read all the neoclassical economic drivel. It sucks. The Marxist tradition better understands the capitalist mode of production & it’s not even close.
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This one always pisses everyone off for some reason: the proletariat are not the revolutionary subject.
What Marxist take will have you like this?
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The $ has no value. It expresses worthlessness. Nations are dependent b/c the most advanced capital must run deficits = to a global economy awash in worthless capital.
China won't.
Germany won't.
The Eurozone won't.
BRICS won't.
Putin should read more Marx & less Dugin
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They’ll lose like the Dutch farmers. And like the American farmers. The industry has been dead since 29’. Austerity should be welcomed. They’re ensuring their own credit and debt peonage to the State to raise crop and land prices for them. All to avoid being proles.
Munich is conquered.
The city is completely blocked off with thousands of tractors 🚜 and trucks 🛻!
And the vast majority of the population is supporting them!
I get teary 🥹 eyes ❤️
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"No one is talking about"
It's literally all I talk about, lady.
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People think we're crazy but MAGA is going to burn Washington to the fucking ground---and it's gonna be amazing.
BREAKING: Republican Representative Kevin McCarthy has been removed as House Speaker.
Here is Matt Gaetz blasting members of Congress for being owned by “lobbyists and special interests” right before McCarthy was ousted.
“I take no lecture on asking patriotic Americans to weigh…
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"More than half, or 53%, of Gen Zers say a high cost of living is a barrier to their financial success, according to a separate survey from Bank of America."
If there was only some Gen Z communist with enough reach to speak to them about this issue and how the state is…
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If you think "price" or "cost" will exist as a matter of economic sums, then you believe in wage-slavery.
If you think we need a bank, you believe in wage-slavery.
If you think we need currency, you obviously believe in wage-slavery.
Marx was clear: wealth is FREE-TIME.
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Many of the early scientific discoveries during the Enlightenment and after were made by people w/ DISPOSABLE TIME. Either through independent family wealth or patronage.
Imagine the advancements we'll make when this avails itself to all and the General Intellect is unified?
Free time is not leisure. Free time is, itself, wealth; wealth for every member of society, to be appropriated in whatever form they consider necessary to them as a Free Individual for their own Self-Development. It is wealth no longer appropriated by the few.
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Every communist in the world sounds exactly like this octogenarian sentient bodily orifice.
Capitalism will never fall on its own. It will have to be pushed. The accumulation of capital will never cease. It will have to be stopped. The capitalist class will never willingly surrender its power. It will have to be dispossessed.
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26 million people, just in the U.S., marched during BLM and police budgets only went up.
Maybe going for walks isn't how you force the state to stop spending?
The ground invasion has not started, yet, yesterday, ~100K people marched in London.
If you can't detect the dynamics of history, you have a serious problem.
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It's not exactly how I would have contextualized it, but at least Jackson said it.
Weniger Arbeit für alle!
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Pathetic. These motherfuckers don't deserve free-time, if they're going to use it just to inflate some asshole's ego...
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You should really read the fascist economists. They tell you just how much they're pimps for work-without-end. And they've all worked for the state at the highest levels.
Here's a Larry H. Summers interview where he explicitly states you don't deserve free-time, and for no…
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This is the data he's using to signal capitalism is at an end?
Give me a fucking break.
Use labor theory or fuck off.
Grossman built a model using the same categories Marx did and, down to the year, predicted the end of the Bretton Woods system.
This is weak af.
BlackRock is the most central shareholder in the ownership network of Germany. Vanguard is number 2.
@InfraHaz
on why data like this indicates an end of capitalism:
"Capitalism doesn't exist anymore. What capitalism? You think capitalism exists because people make money? I'm…
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Marx ()
Grossman ()
Robert Kurz ()
Moishe Postone ()
Hudson ()
Keynes ()
Minsky ()
Bernake ()
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Once we return to the gold standard, collapse is imminent. Capital can't valorize itself through gold. Which means it can't self-expand and the rate of profit and prices go to zero.
Even RW & Libertarian think tanks understand it leads to deflation---which I am all for.
This is a good read
It aligns with returning to a gold standard.
Once we return to a gold standard, this thinking below 👇 will become more clearer.
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The libertarians call it crony capitalism.
The conservatives call it communism.
I call it fascism.
Whatever the nomenclature, the solution is always the same: get rid of the State.
Then we'll see who's right...
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"The rate of profit does not sink because the labourer is exploited any less, but because generally less labour is employed in proportion to the employed capital.”---some guy
If you are not accelerating capital's most self-destructive tendency, you won't live to see communism.
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If we had actual Marxists doing actual scientific work, maybe we could arrive at an answer like Benjamin Franklin did about how long work should actually be. Motherfucker wrote this in 1768. The big invention that year was the "spinning frame" for yarn.
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If his plan for America was just an 18 hour work week and balancing the budget, he'd have my support.
But MLs will always preserve the state, delaying communism as long as humanely possible, for their centralized and universalized models for us all to live under.
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1908 Republican Convention---you guessed it: a call for shorter work hours.
Dems are the party of slavery.
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Marx does not go out of his way to describe capital as not only an automatic subject, but the dual subject-object---"the self-moving process of its own outcome." Its totalizing nature is how it becomes independent in the first place. Living labor couldn't possibly reign it in.
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No. Burn it all. Americans are tired of paying for it. We're tired of the family idiot having access to cushy government jobs. We're tired of endless social spending. We're tired of the inflation it causes. We're tired of people like you saying something that produces…
America deserves a better bureaucracy, not a smaller one
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If you were wondering if the woke, culture-war shit was to distract MAGA from what they actually cared about?
Yes. The answer is yes:
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Not as good as this:
I’m not one to brag about commodities but this is my prized possession.
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This guy gets it. Most of government functions can be automated. We need a Musk + a team of engineers to go into Washington, pink slip them all, and then apply it at the state and local level.
My brother in Christ, I guarantee you if you got the best 20 engineers in this country together, combined with a CEO level operator, that whole joint could be 80-90% automated.
They do not need 20,000 employees wasting our fucking money.
People are so unambitious in this…
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Every postwar labor movement has failed because they went back to work.
End of story.
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"...The idea that we should fire 50% of Federal bureaucrats is totally outrageous and insane...It should be 90%."
Vivek Ramaswamy recently tweeted that he would fire 50% of all federal bureaucrats on his first day in office. Here is what I think:
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President Zer0: "On Day One, I will sign a new executive order to withhold all access to U.S. treasury markets from every nation on Earth that trades, or wants to trade in dollars, until they shorten their inappropriate workweeks or balance their inappropriate budgets."
President Trump in South Carolina: "On Day One, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our beautiful children."
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From Jehu (two days ago):
Since my post about MAGA Communism I have interacted with some of the followers. I think they are very close to what Wilfred Bion called a "dependent group", which refers to a group in which the leadership structure is based around one leader at the top who is taken to be…
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It doesn't work this way either.
The fascist centralized planning we have now is already what *we* were supposed to do.
Except we were also supposed to reduce hours of labor (which is accelerative).
Our task now is to unwind the New Deal---that is so say, induce deflation.…
Alex Jones, like many libertarians, is so close. He gets that the means of production are socialized and that there is a central authority planning the economy and reaping the rewards.
What he and others don't get is that you can't turn history backwards and return to some…
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Broken fucking record of Leninism: "finance capitalism", "monopoly capitalism."
Washington literally owns money.
This is not imperialism. This is fascism. This is the breakdown of money itself. Marx called it the breakdown of exchange-value.
Lenin's brain exploded…
@yellowparenti
If imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism, then imperialism is the most fundamental form of class struggle, and in the 21st century, western finance capital is the
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class enemy of the people.
Has it occurred to you that if people are correctly pointing out things like…
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Imagine having all this power and you don't reduce the workweek?
You just boss around the other pimps?
What a shame.
American monopolists freely shut down factories and ruin lives of working people.
In Russia, Putin doesn't let such greedy characters get away with it.
Watch how billionaires shiver in his presence:
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Once the state assumes not just its role as a "rentier state," but actually becomes the national-capitalist---and later, global---and once capitalism operates w/o exchange value, and prices and profits have no causal link to SNLT: that's when we are now in the realm of fascism...
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Moishe Postone already answered the question on antisemitism's relation to National-Socialism and capital in 1986. Nothing Infrared is saying is new or original on the subject. Postone just said it better.
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@khrachvik
@MikeStalingrad
@damn_jehu
That's the libertarian arg. abt "cronyism." What I'm talking abt is the state as national-capitalist. Wall St. has no power over the state. Influence? Sure. But Congress sets the terms. Hank Paulson, former GS banker, had to literally beg Pelosi for a handout. That's power.
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Capitalists still hate wage labor more than communists. They are the only active revolutionary segment of society. The rest of us are just inert bookcels arguing over inconsequential and trivial philology.
Ironically, capitalists require no theory to abolish wage labor.
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You all suck ass at strategy. You're playing "anti-imperialism" and the U.S. is playing global-capitalist. You want each nation, one by one, to regain "sovereignty." Meanwhile, we could collapse capitalism from w/i 65 sq miles call WASHINGTON D.C.
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If Stalin is not a good enough source to demonstrate why the Soviet Union never achieved communism, then who is?
Twisting my words to say Stalin wasn't a communist vs. whether the S.U. ever met his own criteria for communism is lazy and pathetic.
“Stalin wasn’t a communist bc he didn’t give free time” come ON
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You want to be build a new currency reserve system when we already have one that can wipe out all currencies. You want to foment a WORLD WAR---which has preceded every other reserve currency changeover, from the franc to the pound to the dollar---instead of reducing labor hrs.
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Just reduce hrs of labor & organize to end budget deficits.
The debt accrued is a stand-in for its opposite: free-time.
We’ve been converting empty-labor-time into public spending for decades.
Capital needs to move from the State back to productive consumption.
Rinse/repeat.
* The First Task of American Communism *
The Rebuilding and Unshackling of Productive Forces
We no longer have an economy in America. We have a joke. We have a debt prison with parasites on top, sucking the life of the American people, working hand in glove with the…
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Here, feel free to catch up:
Keynes:
Grossman:
Kurz:
Everything Postone has ever written:
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None of this is in Marx. So what? You morons talk about degeneration. THIS is degeneration. Fascist economics is as perverted as it gets. There are econ advisors and lickspittles at the NEC dreaming of policies to keep us all wage slaves. So, yeah, pay attention...
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The state drives up health insurance premiums.
The state causes inflation.
The state can draft you.
These are not political problems.
These are repercussions of not identifying the state as the national-capitalist.
If they stop *spending,* this all goes away.
“I don’t care about politics it doesn’t effect me”
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This gentleman is correct. The message of “[communism is] orientating government for the common good” (Hinkle) is not even remotely communism. We don’t have to sell them on communism, just less government.
While I’ve no issue with Hinkle being a visible communist. MAGA…
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Infrared has its sights on 2036: just in time for 10 trillion in yearly deficits and for all social programs to "consume all revenues."
In other words: too fucking late.
Come up with another plan besides "form a party" and pen another gay ass manifesto...
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It's not. Haz just has no comprehension of the political-economy of fascism.
Not sure I've met one Marxist-Leninist who has. Grossman had to correct Lenin on imperialism, and even then, this was before fascist state policies would close the door on Lenin's relevance forever.
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If he applied this to the state, he'd unironically be the most radical person in America.
It's the state's "economy." They don't even call shit capitalism anymore. They name it after the chief executive. "Bidenomics." "Trumponomics." "Reaganomics." Synonyms for fascism.
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US is 4th in steel production
US is 1st in oil production
US is 4th in coal production
US is 2nd in car manufacturing
US is 3rd in chip manufacturing/semi conductors
US is the top food exporter in the world.
Industrial LABOR is what’s dead.
Not output.
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If the dollar fails, you don’t have to worry about anything else.
Nothing comes after it because fiat is not meant to denote a standard of prices.
It’s meant to prevent prices from falling.
China is collapsing
Ukraine is winning
US military is winning
The dollar will never fail
Israel is winning
It’s almost pathetic to see.
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Utter BS:
-we need a STATE bank
-currency pegged to "rare earth minerals"
-price determined by "ecological" economics (energy output/consumption)
Reality:
-Prices go to ZERO when you re-peg the currency to a commodity.
-Global profits go to ZERO
-Banks will be unnecessary
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@InfraHaz
I accept your surrender, comrade : )
Your "undefeated tankie warlord" is hustling you.
He's not a visionary. He's not saying anything dangerous or unique.
Until you understand that, you'll remain fanatics in a cult of personality.
MAGA is real. We're not.
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Marx was pretty clear about what the material outcome of prod. of surplus-value was.
He says the form of wealth under communism is disposable time in the Grundrisse.
He says our modest "Magna Charta" is free-time.
Says the same about the "realm of freedom."
Need I go on?
This entire “Communism is free time and nothing else” stuff is just turning into Dogmatism and Anarchism
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Lockdown may have set productivity back 40 years, says OECD (what they mean to say is, "Lockdowns killed capital; we can still produce whatever we want on-command but it's increasingly difficult to realize profit without accumulating assloads of debt).
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Railing against AI sounds “pro worker.”
He asks the most FAQ: “how does AI workout for workers?”
It doesn’t. It replaces them.
Reducing hrs of labor accelerates this inevitably by putting the *burden* on capital.
It is the demise of “the worker.”
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Amazing he could form a coherent sentence with that fat English titty in his mouth:
British farmer has a message for the Westminster elite:
"We had ENOUGH talking"
"For the last 20 years we've been attacked by the political classes, telling us how to farm in the countryside"
"We're now being paid to stop growing food and grow wild flowers"
"It's insanity"…
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MAGA Is The Real Red Scare...
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The Three-Day Workweek Memory Hole Part III: The 1950s…
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MAGA isn't fucking around.
"No quarter will be asked."
"...Or given..."
---Rob Roy
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We admit Leftism has failed and is irrelevant. The Left align themselves with every fascist proposal.
Infrared is closer to the answer than any group insomuch as they’re willing to start from scratch and break from this failure.
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No one ever thinks of what they could do with free-time.
This is where DSA and the so-called “anti-establishment” communists collide: they’ll both make moral arguments about how and what we spend on rather than whether this spending is an expression of something entirely…
Biden is asking Congress for $106 billion to stoke war and militarize the border.
But think of what we could do instead with $106 billion... (1/6)
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The CIA used to read French theory. What makes BAP so special?
I can't believe after all this time, you still don't get it: the state can deploy and co-opt anything that is not a threat to them---*except* free-time.
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@SalvMattera
LABOR HOURS. That's what would spook them. They can't allow them to fall. But I'm afraid they're caught between a rock and a hard place. The state needs to keep the economy open and that means more LC cases in the long-run and labor shortages.
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Not sure what Leon Walras has to do with this, but when they were thinking about re-introducing the gold standard in the 1980s, the opposition to it saw the end of capitalism ("a permanent depression"):
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This is why we're NOT libertarians. Every libertarian plan merely tempers the growth of the state; it doesn't do away with the effects of chronic overaccumulation and the eventual necessity of running massive deficits or some QE scheme.
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Just remember. Infrared thinks I'm a lunatic but this is their leader:
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The non-hegemon has one luxury and one luxury only: it gets to play the "good guy." Communists analyze the U.S.'s supposed decline in the most superficial ways: poverty, drugs overdoses, homelessness, QoL, public and private debt, or counter alliances forming geopolitically.
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...That they have to invent ways to cause inflation (or rather, prevent deflation). None probably more insane than Keynes literally talking about the gov't filling up bottles w/ currency to have the public dig them up. Or a giant trillion dollar coin to bypass the debt ceiling.
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Grossman argues that the productivity of labor-power necessitates it being sold below its value.
Postone argues that total labor-time will never fall (even though labor theory says it should).
SNLT is thus decoupled from value, prices, and profits altogether.
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Jesus Christ, dude. All we're asking for is a balanced budget.
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson admitted that he and his son monitored each other’s porn intake in a resurfaced clip from 2022 - RollingStone
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@EdbieLigerSmith
Edward. Don't argue. Just agree and say, "Yes. We need to overthrow the Socialist States of America." If we have to trick them into doing it, then so be it.
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