Bobby the Terrible

classical Marxist.
proletariat.
theory.
praxis.
support the real movement.

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

A 🧵 on the Haitian revolution and how France purposefully ruined the country out of spite:

[Peter B @realpeteyb123]

Haitians eating dirt has nothing to do with being poor, but has to do with the types of people they are.

Take 1000 Europeans and place them somewhere with absolutely nothing.

Make it even harder for them, and destroy a city and then place them there.

They won’t eat a dirt cookie I promise you.

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

@KellMorrHK I can't tell if this is a rhetorical thing or if you are actually just really stupid

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

common mistake in the study of Marx. Capital Vol 1 is the most mature of Marx's writings, he was still working on new editions right up until he died. Vol 2 and 3 were assembled from drafts and notes posthumously, many of them going back to when he first began drafting Vol 1

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

Marxism's most devastating critic wasn't Hayek, Mises, or any Austrian.

It was Marx himself.

Volume III of Capital, published after his death, destroyed the theory Volume I had built. 🧵

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

@KellMorrHK you don't understand Marx's conception of value. it isn't merely "the price something trades for". prices tend towards values in a free market, they aren't magic spells that create value

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

@CDMorlock Engels claims the latest work used in Vol 3 was a notebook from 1875, the same year Marx finished rewriting and expanding Vol 1 for the French edition

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

@KellMorrHK you are confusing price with value

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

@CDMorlock do you even disagree with the post of mine you are quoting?

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

@KellMorrHK the robot factory is creating less surplus value, yes. as robot factories proliferate and labor is removed from the process prices fall. you can look at historical data for how this works you don't need to invent hypotheticals

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

@KellMorrHK the reason why price tends towards value in a free market is because of competition, prices aren't magic they are a reflection of market forces. as companies implement widget automation and labor is phased out the price of the widget falls. this has been borne out countless times

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

@KellMorrHK can you show me a single instance where industrial automation was adopted and the price of the given commodity didn't fall?

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

@KellMorrHK every single conversation with you people goes the same way. price is not the same thing as value. automation doesn't add value. the point your hypothetical doesn't capture is that the price of widgets will fall with the increase in automation

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

@KellMorrHK the exploitation of surplus labor is the basis for value in the capitalist production process, yes.

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

@Lasermazer Engels actually give a pretty detailed description here
https://t.co/Exu5WwZie3

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

@KellMorrHK 0 iq response

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

@0xkillerwhale @VenturCommunist @AmadeusBolshev >Where’s the international proletariat? I don’t mean the “workers of the world”
you are not going to believe this but

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

@fhsdkjhfqwqwe Plato was smarter than Richard Rorty you will have to cope with that fact

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

media criticism will literally rot your brain. it's okay to watch TV or or watch movies or listen to music. but the moment you think there is meaning in it that can apply to the real world you are no longer acting as a materialist

[BadEmpanada 🇧🇦🇿🇦 @GoyEmpanada]

FD Signifier explains that he opposes Graham Platner because is like Walter White from hit television show Breaking Bad

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

@fhsdkjhfqwqwe even the ancient Greeks could tell the difference between fictional stories and the real world. they had a much richer understanding of the distinction than whatever you just typed. I suggest you lay off the literary criticism

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

@fhsdkjhfqwqwe okay be very specific about your point in one post. you are typing like a drunk person be charitable to me and be very specific what your issue is

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

@fhsdkjhfqwqwe "some people in literary criticism think literary criticism is useless therefor you are a literary critic if you think it's useless bro"
okay have fun with academia they will love you

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

@fhsdkjhfqwqwe I read your responses. "already presupposes" nonsense. critique of media criticism isn't media criticism, this is sophistry

[Bobby the Terrible @secondbyfarce]

@fhsdkjhfqwqwe yes and part of a materialist approach is to interrogate those baseless beliefs to accord them with the real world. if it's not a form of knowledge which you can apply to the real world, it's useless