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                                • REallyN [she/her,they/them]
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                                  4 years ago

                                  I guuuuuess.

                                  The problem is that if everything is traded for the cost that it takes to produce it, then where would we ever get a profit? The answer, Marx gives, is that that there is one difference between HUMAN labour power as a commodity, and that of every other non-human commodities. The cost of producing a human being (i.e. it's sustenance" might not necessarily be equal to the amount of value that a worker can PRODUCE in a given day. Thus, if it takes 6 hours of labor time to provide for sustenance, then the remaining hours of work time (6 or so in Marx's day) are SURPLUS -- they are the value over-and-above costs that the worker produces.

                                  @.@

                      • Wmill [they/them]
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                        4 years ago

                        Read the communist manifesto, read :leslie-feinberg: and Juila Serano recently. Picked up other ones that I haven't finished, on state and revolution like the read like 20 or so pages. Also I got the anarchist cookbook so that looks like fun.

                        Edit I remembered more. I finished Settlers a while back, been reading :parenti: assassination of Julius ceaser, read bullshit jobs and free lunch a while back.

                        I'm probably forgetting some but that's the gist.