willow: "the tricky bit about SNLT is that it's the measure for abstract labor, which is predicated upon generalized commodity production, and concrete labor is merely the manifestation of abstract labor. SNLT isn't just a way to dodge mudpies, it's integral to understanding how and why capitalism works."

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willowSep 30, 2023

i'm going insane writing a book report in n0's comment section about marx every month, it has to end here

willowSep 30, 2023

i keep editing the second post over and over again; i hope i got it to be a good place now

willow @dreary.dev

the tricky bit about SNLT is that it's the measure for abstract labor, which is predicated upon generalized commodity production, and concrete labor is merely the manifestation of abstract labor. SNLT isn't just a way to dodge mudpies, it's integral to understanding how and why capitalism works.

September 30, 2023 at 12:56 PM

willowSep 30, 2023

the only reason why concrete labor takes place at all is to be the mediated form of abstract labor, which is the way capital gets valorized. in this way, random expenditure of human powers (i.e. mudpies) isn't even concrete labor as such,

willowSep 30, 2023

because the expenditure is not the manifestation of abstract labor, and therefore not valorizing anything (hence why it has no exchange value).

willowSep 30, 2023

i'm not totally happy with this last bit, because valorization is not synonymous with exchange value, but idk how else to describe it

willowSep 30, 2023

like it still makes sense, if it was valorizing it would necessarily result in exchange values, but i feel like it confuses things