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

  • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
    3·
    4 years ago

    I’m sorry you get weirdly mad

    *looks up to see you coming in extremely hot*

    • GlacialTurtle [none/use name]
      7·
      4 years ago

      Being mad at moronic posts like this is actually the correct response, as compared to getting mad at the term surplus-value.

            • GlacialTurtle [none/use name]
              7·
              4 years ago

              Yeah I'm mad at dipshits writing post #5320492 about how old books are bad, I've seen them hundreds of times, they add nothing and every time it's the same shit. If you want to know what something means, just fucking ask like a normal person.

              • yeehawman1312 [he/him,any]
                5·
                4 years ago

                If people have to keep making the same fucking post, then maybe theres a problem?

                HMMMMMMM

                How the fuck did i get 19 upvotes this fast, I know for a fact it wasn't possible to get 19 in 30 seconds lmao.

                • GlacialTurtle [none/use name]
                  4·
                  4 years ago

                  I don't walk into a philosophy class bitching about "old white men" because I encountered "Kantian ethics" and didn't understand what it meant. I don't attribute that as an innate problem that the phrase exists, and that it supposedly needs solving, especially from a position of ignorance about why such a thing might exist.

                  The "problem" is, surprise fucking surprise, various fields of study require learning shit. The "problem" is being able to engage with shit on its own terms. The "problem" is someone getting mad at a term they didn't know existed.

                  • yeehawman1312 [he/him,any]
                    5·
                    4 years ago

                    if you have to use big words to say that workers shouldnt be forced to overwork then you're a classist intellectual who wants to show off their degree

                    🤷‍♀️

                • GlacialTurtle [none/use name]
                  5·
                  4 years ago

                  Then maybe they could just ask without writing several paragraphs about a single term they saw and didn't know, and just ask like a normal person who was actually interested in understanding.