@Gattungswesen25 So would “commodity fetishism” be the belief that production for trade is a natural mode of production and not due to estranged labor/the laws of capital? I’ve never understood the term only heard people get criticized for misuse
No, Marx argues that the crisis lies in the organic composition of capital and its relation to the rate of profit. As capital accumulates, the constant portion of capital outstrips the variable portion of capital, creating a surplus population. This reduces the rate of profit.
@Penis_Incognito@rk__upadhya@Sol20559932 I don’t think there is and a fair demographic within dsa thinks so too but that’s for them to work out. If they wanna have the Democratic Party forever that’s fine
@Penis_Incognito@rk__upadhya@Sol20559932 There’s no value for a revolutionary socialist org to create more dem socs. That’s just a waste of energy. I can guarantee there’s someone smart enough at DSA to capitalize on hatred of Epstein without compromising on class.
@Penis_Incognito@rk__upadhya@Sol20559932 The rhetorical purpose is to agitate people against the “Epstein class” but if you’re a socialist org you should be agitating people against capitalism and educating people on their class position. That rhetoric just obfuscates the real issue and defaults to “crony capitalism”
@wet_church@KokuKojuto And then they should multiply that value by a factor from 1 to 1.1 representing the degree of coverage with 1 being wide open and 1.1 being hand in the face
Marx's theory of alienation is synonymous with his theory of value. Value is worker's labor-time thingified into an alien object whose destination is to become self-expanding value: capital. This alien object is the alienated self-activity that dominates over its creator.
@AltOpinions99@Gattungswesen25 You can be proletarian in a settler colony. But the main characteristic of a settler colony is class collaboration in service of colonialism. Thus class struggle is not brought to the fore while theres an oppressed “native” population