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Marxist-Leninist

[Ferdi KRBSN @Ferdi_Karabasan]

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[Jules 🅱️🆓,🖕🏛 @Noles_JagsJules]

Adrian Peterson should be in jail for child abuse, not getting awarded.
He beat his son bloody. His back, his legs, front and back.
Piece of shit. Poor baby. What a terrible message. Shame on the Vikings.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“I’m done thinking that I’m somehow controversial…because I don’t want babies to freeze in cold, wet tents.”

[Caroline @carolinecwilder]

They’re gonna be really upset when the girlies wake up to this at large

[‎ً @Dubsn4]

Ima be real you can’t flex money if you were born rich

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

I no longer have to wonder. I live it every day.

[John Cusack @johncusack]

This is pure evil

[Ola Ojewumi @Olas_Truth]

That's a white feminist analysis.

The Kardashians were NEVER financially free of men, and the men in their lives were central to their strategy for acquiring fame and wealth.

Their initial wealth came from a multimillion-dollar inheritance from their father, a famous attorney. The Kardashians pandered to the Black male gaze with their numerous plastic surgeries, as a family of white women who paid to have Black women’s features.

The Black men they've dated have admitted to advising them on how to imitate Black culture. It's not a feminist utopia if their successful empire under capitalism was built on theft from Black women designers (just Google the lawsuits against them).

Their proximity to, and romantic relationships with, famous Black men paved the way on their highway of cultural vulturism. They're wrongfully credited as innovators of styles and trends invented by Black people.

This isn't matriarchy, but white supremacy.

[☀️AliquisNovus☀️ @PalmyrPar]

Imagine Chinese-mass produced RTX 4080 equivalent cards flooding the market at half the price or below……it’s beautiful

[New Afrikan❤️🖤💚 @Liberation_Blk]

I knew this was going to be framed this way to drive clicks🙄—The report also said Maduro was studying the Quran, has lost significant weight, and receiving inadequate nutrition, while his wife Cilia suffered a heart attack, sleep deprivation & tooth decay. But instead of scrutinizing torturous conditions in MDC, the focus is on sensationalizing “interest in Judaism”😑

[Omar Montoya Suárez @OmarMontoyaSua1]

Cada vez q el discurso neoliberal se queda sin argumentos frente a la desigualdad, la miseria salarial o las crisis cíclicas del capitalismo, recurren a un mito burdo: Marx no trabajó nunca, vivió de la caridad y era un vago. ¿La realidad? Es una mentira histórica monumental.1/12

[Noah Khrachvik @khrachvik]

Every anti-communist fails at their criticism.

Marx explains precisely why this understanding of exploitation is wrong in the very first volume of Capital.

First and foremost, Marx does NOT argue that the capitalist has "underpaid" the worker by $150. His explanation of surplus value begins with the assumption that commodities, INCLUDING labor-power, are exchanged at their values.

You're attempting to refute Marx by attributing to him an argument he explicitly rejected.

The worker is not selling "labor" as a finished commodity. He's selling his labor-power, his capacity to work, for a definite period of time. And Marx distinguishes labor-power from other commodities for a MATERIAL reason, not because he arbitrarily decided workers deserve more money.

Labor-power is the commodity whose USE produces new value.

The capitalist purchases labor-power at its value, determined by the socially necessary labor required to reproduce that capacity to work. Food, housing, clothing, education, raising the next generation of workers, etc.

But the USE of labor-power can create more value than is required for its own reproduction.

THAT is where surplus value comes from.

Suppose the worker receives $100 in wages, and during the working day produces $150 in new value beyond the value required to replace the machinery, materials, and other means of production consumed. The capitalist purchases labor-power at its value, but appropriates the additional $50.

No cheating in the exchange is necessary. No violation of the wage agreement. No argument that the worker was secretly owed $150 instead of $100.
The exploitation arises from the SOCIAL RELATION itself, not from somebody breaking the rules of the transaction.
Now, regarding your hammer analogy...
A hammer doesn't produce new value independently. It transfers its own existing value to the products it helps manufacture as it wears out. The person USING the hammer performs the labor that creates new value.

You can purchase a hammer for $100 and use it to make $250 worth of products, sure. But the hammer didn't spontaneously create that additional value. Somebody had to do the work. A hammer on its own just sits there. And if you did that work yourself, then congratulations! You've demonstrated the difference between owning a means of production and employing somebody else's labor-power.

If you hired somebody to use the hammer, we'd have to examine the relationship between what you paid for their labor-power and the new value their labor produced.

See the difference?

There’s something else you're missing here too.

Why does the worker have to sell his labor-power in the first place? Why does one class own the factories, machinery, land, and productive infrastructure, while another class must sell its capacity to work in order to survive?
These aren't eternal facts of human existence. They're historically developed property relations, reproduced through capitalism.

Your argument accepts those relations as natural, then declares that because the exchange is voluntary and legally agreed upon, there's nothing left to investigate.

But Marx's entire project is to investigate what those exchanges conceal about production and class relations.
And the last part of your argument, that the worker should have "no interest whatsoever" in what the capitalist earns from his labor, is particularly revealing.
Why shouldn't he?

The worker's labor is part of a collective social process that reproduces society, including the wealth of the capitalist class. His wages, livelihood, and future are bound up with how the products of that labor are appropriated and distributed.

You're treating the legal completion of a transaction as though it eliminates the material relationship between the people involved.

It doesn't.

You're defending the capitalist's legal right to appropriate the surplus while mistaking that defense for a refutation of Marx's explanation of how the surplus is produced.
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[Fluor 💡 Comms OPEN @FluorescentArt]

Mom watching AI vertical dramas and dad watching AI history documentaries and aunt watching the AI garden showcases, this shit is truly the old people cocomelon

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

While reading the impeachment resolution, Thomas Massie detailed how war criminal Pete Hegseth oversaw the bombing of an elementary school in Iran mass murdering 168 children, teachers, and parents. The school was bombed not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES.

[Grace Auta @graceauta101_]

Ten women reported the same man at Cornell. TEN. And nothing was done to stop him. Then people turn around and ask why women don't report. Maybe start asking why nobody listens when they do.

[Catherine Pikachu @CathachuPikachu]

And remember kids, Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer teaches us that we who are disabled are not loved unless we are useful to society.

[kyama @kyamawebb23]

Let it be known that Hegseth ordered the execution of men in the ocean that were asking for Mercy, a violation of the Geneva Conference of 1949.

[Isaac @roundrobin42]

Insane story, incredible reporting by @NickBerardini

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A wild donkey in the Arizona desert will dig a well six feet deep with its front hooves, and for half a century the United States government has been shooting it as a threat to the desert.

August on a dry wash in the Sonoran. The creek has been gone since May. The sand is hot enough to cook on and every animal for miles is standing in what shade it can find, waiting for a rain that is not coming. A burro walks down the wash, stops at a bend for no reason anyone else can see, puts its head down and smells. Then it starts digging. Front feet, one after the other, like a dog after a bone, until it is in up to its shoulders and the bottom of the hole goes dark and wet.

It drinks and walks off.

Within the hour there is a queue. Mule deer. Javelina. A bobcat. A scrub jay standing on the rim. In 2021 a biologist called Erick Lundgren published the count in Science: 59 species of vertebrate drinking at donkey wells, 64% more species than at the dry stretches of the same streams, and in the driest months the donkeys were raising the amount of open water in the desert by 300% on average and by up to 1,450%. When the wells were abandoned, cottonwood and willow seedlings came up in them. The donkey had been planting the riverbank.

Asked about his methodology, the donkey had another drink and left.

When a beaver builds a pond, a film crew is sent. When a donkey digs a well, the Park Service sends a marksman. The burros came up from Mexico with the Spanish and the prospectors, carried the ore out of every mine in the West, and were turned loose when the mines closed. Then they were reclassified. In 1979 the National Park Service planned to shoot all 577 in the Grand Canyon. A writer called Cleveland Amory raised more than $500,000 and lifted 582 of them out by helicopter, slung underneath, the most expensive taxi ride a donkey has ever taken. Death Valley shot 400 between 1987 and 1994.

Lundgren said that when he started, people did not think a donkey digging a hole was worthy of scientific attention.

The animal was listed as a threat to the desert's water.

It was the one bringing the water up.

Fifty-nine species knew.

The ones with the rifles had never sat by the hole.

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

The floods in Gaza are not because of the autumn rain but because of the Israeli genocide that destroyed drainage systems and blocked up water courses with the debris from its bombardment.
@netanyahu and his cohort need to be in the Hague answering the warrant from the @IntlCrimCourt