Looking forward to the rest of the Chinese century ๐ซก
zedcell
joined 2 years ago
"Our report just said there were risks, we didn't actually say you were using slave labour!"
What a fucking crock of shit. Chat shit get banged.
Transportation is not, by Marx's definition, work that belongs to circulation of commodities. And I would also say that logistics also falls into the same sphere as well. Both would constitute a part of the production process itself. As would, on social averages, the marketing departments that produce branding and the aesthetics of a commodity.
The clearest examples of unproductive workers are those paid from capital: workers involved in realising surplus value, I.e. sales teams, shop clerks. And workers paid from revenues: directly hired servants (More likely in Marx's time), and workers hired by the state for local and state administration, and others like them whose labour is paid out of taxes (i.e. surplus value collected by the state), but some of these are part of the 'faux frais' of production itself - like health and education workers, and can constitute productive labour as such.
A good article breaking down the topic from across vol 1, 2 and 3 of capital plus the theories of surplus value:
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/howell/produnprod.htm
Also, and it's touched on in the article, the incessant need to split this or that labour into productive and unproductive feels almost entirely unnecessary in regards to the organisation of the proletariat toward revolutionary ends. That any given member of the working class is employed in productive or unproductive labour doesn't change the potential precarity of their position as a waged labourer subject to the whims of capital and its state.
More likely just plain old US assets tbh.
If Russia had all this intel on these old fucks then they'd have released it already.
I appreciate that books are a bit harder to read than Wikipedia pages, but I really do recommend it.
I'll be less glib: liberalism was used to justify French slave ownership too. It also has been the justification for global interventionist policy by the imperial core. "Bringing liberal democracy to dictatorships."
But equally racialised minorities are still the people that bare the brunt of the systematic violence of Capitalism and the state repression. In this instance as an example this is targeted at Muslims, but in the racialised sense any person of MENA or Indian subcontinent ethnic origin (or who looks like it).
Liberalism as a political project was first and foremost a way to justify american slave ownership.
Domenico Losurdo's "Liberalism: A Counter History" covers the history of the ideology well.
They'll be like VPs of their individual work team, working under a senior manager who heads up their particular work area. So like one senior vp to 2-3 vps, who oversee 2 juniors each.
Recreating Marx's chapter on cooperation from a reactionary standpoint lmao.
Capitalism is bad because it makes the workers cooperate too much is a wild take.
Vice president in Citibank is like a manager of a small team, so she's not particularly senior.
Source: had a uni friend who became a "VP" about 3 years after graduating.
The stain on the politics of One Piece imo.
Sack all the reinstating of "good" monarchs and centre the revolutionary army more pls.
Lmfao good luck