Johnson-Forest City

Abstract labor hater. Stop the thing-ification of social relations.

Have mercy, been waitin' for the bus all day.
I got my brown paper bag and my take-home pay

[Johnson-Forest City @eatrighteous]

After a year of reading and discussion I'm happy to share:

C.L.R. James and the Johnson-Forest Tendency Discussion Guide!

We dug through many JFT readings & scanned new documents to highlight underappreciated figures from the JFT.

Check it out!

https://t.co/s7O8Fs1wd8

[Johnson-Forest City @eatrighteous]

@Permanentkritik Ruth Wilson Gilmore has used that term for a long time too..

[DDBB @DDBB18761960]

The Sabbath and top metal acts at Villa Park is a good idea, but with there being no priest, napalm death, carcass, cathedral on the lineup (a crime against Birmingham!) maybe an alt-origins of metal at either birmingham city or west brom ground?

[Johnson-Forest City @eatrighteous]

From Sam Chambers, Capitalist Economics.

[Johnson-Forest City @eatrighteous]

What Jeff Bezos doesn't want people to know:

There is no genuine (open and competitive) market for labor.

cc @PostGuild

[Doug Henwood @DougHenwood]

Democracy dies in broad daylight

[Pervert Marcuse @stsbstn]

really cool interview with jay bernstein on the marxism of gillian rose https://t.co/zjPbPlSsK5

[Ajay Singh Chaudhary @materialist_jew]

While the German election results are grim overall, the stunning performance of Die Linke should be a stark lesson for the Western left more broadly: the path lies with full throated, unabashed emancipation on all fronts, not trying to triangulate into a right lite

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

Woke never dies

[Simon Torracinta @simontorracinta]

For @BostonReview on February 20 I'll be moderating a virtual event with @BrentCebul, @LGeismer, @dygottlieb, Nicole Hemmer (@pastpunditry), and @dl_wiggins on their new volume MASTERY AND DRIFT: PROFESSIONAL-CLASS LIBERALS SINCE THE 1960s. Register here:

https://t.co/rgOrAYgfin

[Johnson-Forest City @eatrighteous]

@Permanentkritik Thanks. It's all good.

I've read mostly Open Marxists, Heinrich and Sam Chambers.

I'll dig more into Frankfurt School and Adorno lectures since Holloway etc follow them.

[Johnson-Forest City @eatrighteous]

Did Adorno accept Marx's value theory?

[Johnson-Forest City @eatrighteous]

@Permanentkritik Society. How we all do it.

[Johnson-Forest City @eatrighteous]

@outsidadgitator @sorenmau Not socially necessary labor time or labor time exchanged but volunteer labor time.

[Johnson-Forest City @eatrighteous]

@Permanentkritik Basically, Rose claims Adorno is focused on reification in culture and I'm interested more in the power of it in capitalist society at large...

[Johnson-Forest City @eatrighteous]

@Permanentkritik Reification as how thingification or commodity fetishism becomes socially reproduced. Moreso the latter though I feel like assuming domination is slippery?

[Johnson-Forest City @eatrighteous]

@outsidadgitator @sorenmau Some issues that have been raised are it relies on volunteerism and the example of electricity is good because needs are straightforward but gets a lot more complicated in other sectors. It also still relies on labor time...

[Johnson-Forest City @eatrighteous]

@outsidadgitator @sorenmau Came here to post the same. Nardelli article is good.

[Johnson-Forest City @eatrighteous]

@Permanentkritik I'm gonna check that stuff out. I meant non Adorno on reification though

[Johnson-Forest City @eatrighteous]

@Permanentkritik Doesn't help Weber translations are bad too...

[Johnson-Forest City @eatrighteous]

@Permanentkritik Muddy translations in Marx (MECW doesn't translate reification at all, while Penguin translates it twice - equating commodity fetishism with reification basically)...