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

  • the_river_cass [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    A transliteration of seminal works into contemporary lay terms would be a major boon in terms of understanding the books and thus relating better to those that came after.

    yeah, I agree that this is the biggest problem here. there's a cognitive load in trying to translate what's being said and understand it at the same time. we don't expect people to read theory in the original language and languages change over time; capital probably needs a modern translation.

    the original was considered simple enough to understand that workers have been picking it up for 1.5 centuries and reading it in between their shifts. famously, poorly-educated black sharecroppers read Marx and Lenin through the 1930s, very nearly leading to a communist revolution.