Ben Burgis

Previous account (@BenBurgis) was hacked, please follow me here!

Columnist @jacobin
Host @gtaa_show
Co-author of "The Blueprint" (Sept. 29th from @VersoBooks!)

[Ben Burgis @JacobinBen]

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.

Meanwhile, follow me here!

[Ben Burgis @JacobinBen]

Loser.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

"A net swing of more than 43,000 votes since Tuesday.."

43,000, huh? Where have I seen that number before...?

Probably nothing. 🤷

[Ben Burgis @JacobinBen]

@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.

[Ben Burgis @JacobinBen]

"So-called" is pretty funny.

The NY Post position is that irresponsible slumlords who don't maintain proper safety standards just...don't exist?

[New York Post @nypost]

DSA NY House hopeful unveils radical housing plan to 'take buildings away' from so-called bad landlords https://t.co/vYCeXgLH18

[Ben Burgis @JacobinBen]

I think we all know the actual reason.

[Ben Burgis @JacobinBen]

@BobMurphyEcon Section 9.3 of Capital Vol. 1.

And if you want to read the source material Marx was commenting on, it's at https://t.co/zOVsXFuW8I

[Ben Burgis @JacobinBen]

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:

[Vincent Palumbo @vpalsmith33]

"if US extended universal health care, there would be no surplus to be world's leader in cutting edge medical treatments"

[Ben Burgis @JacobinBen]

@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.

[Ben Burgis @JacobinBen]

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.

Meanwhile, follow me here!

[Ben Burgis @JacobinBen]

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.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Sam Harris has written the best thing you’ll read today.

https://t.co/gI0wZZNH4m

[Ben Burgis @JacobinBen]

@FerdinandGriff4 @jacobin I didn't write it, but if you honestly think that was the point of that article, you don't know how to read.

[Ben Burgis @JacobinBen]

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.

[Azi™️ @Azi]

“When you’re at the level of saying ‘I didn’t know it was a Nazi tattoo,’ give me a break.”

— David Remnick about Graham Planter, on the Brian Lehrer Show

https://t.co/POIyUzVvxn

[Ben Burgis @JacobinBen]

@NYCMayor Again, just hugely creepy that my hacked account is interspersing its crypto advice with periodic RTs of people I actually would RT.

[Ben Burgis @JacobinBen]

@infinite_jaz Immensely creepy that my hacked account is interspersing its crypto advice with periodic RTs of people I actually would RT.

[Branko Marcetic @BMarchetich]

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.

Anyway, follow @JacobinBen .

[Cynthia Cook @c_cook1988]

When he's right he's right...

[Ben Burgis @JacobinBen]

From my conversation with @JillianMichaels:

[Give Them An Argument With Ben Burgis @GTAA_Show]

From today's episode:

[Revolution through Reforms 🌹 @chflorelius]

Great thread by @JacobinBen

[Ben Burgis @JacobinBen]

Also, he wrote Vol. 3 before Vol. 1 was published.

/end

[Ben Burgis @JacobinBen]

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.

[Ben Burgis @JacobinBen]

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.

[Ben Burgis @JacobinBen]

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").