i swear to god, if i hear one more dumbass say a variant of "stupid-asses not reading theory" im gonna cum down their fucking throat.
like holy shit, slow the hell down queen. sorry that some of us don't feel like trying to decipher formal register bullshit, and would rather get their theory from people who don't sound like plantation owners.
"The surplus-value produced by prolongation of the working day, I call absolute surplus-value."
What the fuck is this supposed to mean? Is he talking about making long-ass workdays? Is he talking about creating extra value by overworking? What the fuck is it? Holy shit, the classism is rampant here and it's super fuckin' annoying to see.
If you tell somebody to read theory then you better be ready to help them fucking read it. Either that or don't tell them to at all, I could really give a shit what old generally-white guys said about a subject that I can understand by taking off fifteen minutes of my time to ask someone in a leftist discord. Ancient theory is useless in a modern domesticated setting, no-one talks like Marx nowadays.
/vent
Yes long work days is basically what he's talking about.
A foundational aspect of scientific socialism, or any science, is doing the reading so you don't repeat what has already been done. If you have questions or something is unclear you should discuss it with comrades here or anywhere else. If a comrade isn't willing to help you reach an answer than they aren't a comrade, but this doesn't mean you shouldn't always be trying to learn and one of the easiest ways to do this is to look at foundational texts and going from there.
Edit: for what its worth, I also don't think Kapital is an incredibly important work of theory that every single worker has to read because it is dense, dry, 19th century political economy that most people only read the first volume of anyways. Many workers already know the contradictions in their workplace and are open to ideas like LTV (though it is useful nonetheless).