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

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

      Writing paragraphs out of frustration at how difficult diving into theory/ideas that run counter to everything we’ve been told and sold til now, seems pretty reasonable tbh. “How do I make sense of this” shouldn’t be cause to shun the person. Please come down from that high horse, o’ learned one.

      "Fuck books, fuck old white men [Marx was Jewish]" because they encountered one fucking term. If you want help, learn to ask in good faith. It's not that hard.

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

        Except I was never asking a question, I was voicing my annoyance with how people feel about theory. I literally never insulted Marx, and I used him as an example once.

        I don't fucking care that he was Jewish, that doesn't matter to me. I said 'generally-white' because, AND SHOCKER, white men were generally very educated back when theory was being produced.