Interesting how those laborers just showed up, I wonder what's going on there
Right, why don't the laborers just sell the tomatoes themselves and keep all the money? What's that, you own the land so you can sit back and have the workers toil while you take the profits from their labor? If only there was some kind of a name for that system...
liberalism so frequently operates on these invented, hypothetical situations that it's probably caked into the whole theory. I see it all the time. All these fictional scenarios of two parties entering some trading agreement over tomatoes or flowers and it's presented in a way where you're a bad person if you're interfering rather than an actual analysis of like the United Fruit Company or Raytheon
might be why Capital is so focused on how capitalism is unstable even if all the hypothetical assumptions are true and work perfectly
This is why historical materialism analysis is more accurate than pure ideology.
It's what happens when you get idealism in your politics, all the real stuff is just mistakes or blemishes on the pure goodness that you know exists in your ideology if you can just come up with the right scenario.
Some Mesoamerican domesticating nightshades thousands of years ago looks at the tiny red fruit he has managed to ripen. He smiles and announces, "Checkmate, Communists."
Stopping to debunk shit like this, trivially easy though it is, grounds sooooo much of the lefts energy.
If we didn't have to debunk this shit constantly, we'd be living in communism. The fact that we have to means we need to.
I think he skipped a few steps between selling a tomato he grew alone to having a large farm with many laborers.
And if I have no money I can’t agree on a price with anybody and I die.
Commmunism will win it’s literally the only system that makes sense lol
And if we can't agree on a price, then you don't have a tomato, and you starve to death. But it's fine, because you agreed to starve by not buying my tomato. See why this system is better yet?
