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Columnist @jacobin
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Co-author of "The Blueprint" (Sept. 29th from @VersoBooks!)
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@queens_parents The idea that they "didn't retaliate until days later" is such bizarre historical revisionism.
The IDF was destroying big apartment blocks of civilians on October 8th. They'd killed hundreds of random Palestinians by the end of that day.
It's so easy to just look this stuff up.
In today's Capital Vol. 1 class, we went over Marx's refutation of Nassau Senior's prediction that all profit would cease to exist if the working day were reduced to a mere 10 hours a day, 6 days a week.
Couldn't resist the opportunity to play this clip to illustrate that:
@j_mal1 Many thanks! Also, seriously, report the account for whatever phishing links it sent you! I'd like to get it back obviously but failing that I'd like to shut it down and either way lots of reports right now can only help.
The account I've had since 2018 (@BenBurgis) was hacked two days ago. I've repeatedly tried to get X to restore access and I'm not optimistic based on how that's played out so far. If you get a DM from it, please don't click on any links.
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This assertion is based on nothing.
Harris is pulling out of thin air because he *needs* it to be true so he can reassure himself that what's being done to Palestinians isn't monstrous.
Talking about it like it was a swastika tattoo is just absurd.
I seriously doubt that more than 1 out of 100 people saying "of course he knew that particular skull-and-crossbones shape was used by the Nazis" would actually be able to pick it out of a skull-and-crossbones lineup.
โWhen youโre at the level of saying โI didnโt know it was a Nazi tattoo,โ give me a break.โ
โ David Remnick about Graham Planter, on the Brian Lehrer Show
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Weirdest part of Ben's now-hacked account doing this is the spate of decade-plus-old accounts chiming in like pod-people in the replies to remark on how they, too, benefited from this crypto coach it's promoting.
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And that it would be happening even if everyone were scrupulously following the "laws of exchange," trading value for equal value.
That's his point, and once you understand it the idea that it rises or falls on the relationship between value and prices makes absolutely no sense.
Marx argued that this kind of "mute compulsion" of economic circumstances--you submit to capitalists or face destitution--is meaningfully analogous to the direct compulsion to perform surplus labor in feudal and slave societies.
Under that deal, *even if they're paid that much*, workers spend only part of the day producing the goods or services that will sell for the equivalent of their wages ("necessary labor"), and the rest producing goods and services that become capitalist profits ("surplus labor").