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albums i like but can't recommend because they promote epistemology
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pretty sure i’ve gained some weight but im not gonna let that awareness affect the danii trip
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hard to tell because e of course
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successfully resisted weighing myself, i’ve gotten better at this shit
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i cite my sources, even in dms
willowMar 3, 2025
Por cierto Kyler te iba a preguntar ¿tu foto es de Puck? willow 7/22/23, 12:27 it's not Puck, but it is from Berserk! Lost Children arc (vol15, chap102, p57)
for a while the top left panel was my pfp
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this short relationship was cute, they sent me noise music and we translated each others messages
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for a while the top left panel was my pfp
Por cierto Kyler te iba a preguntar ¿tu foto es de Puck? willow 7/22/23, 12:27 it's not Puck, but it is from Berserk! Lost Children arc (vol15, chap102, p57)
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not quite horny but i liked that it was hidden horrific
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ur smile 🥺
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quite the memorable post (doesn’t hurt that julie puts it back on my timeline every month lol)
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also not to be that guy but: not being able to find an important post… sounds like you should try pinboards.jeroba.xyz
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this one?
bsky search “from:jeroba.xyz later is now”
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been thinking about online disagreement lately and i've arrived at the unfortunate conclusion that it's contextual and conditions for positively evaluating a particular method of engagement are not antecedently specifiable
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i will say however that my reflection was spurred by being impressed with the futility in certain adversarial interactions and wishing that people took advantage of more creative and indirect methods.
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on the other hand, i've had a number of thoughtful and expository engagements lately that felt appropriate and kind. and further still, i still maintain that there are plenty of occasions where overt confrontation is beneficial:
willowNov 30, 2024
it’s fine to disagree and even argue with your friends, and yes publicly! it’s lubricant for thought and good for the soul
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to defend indirect engagement for a moment: partly it's because i think squabbling can sometimes preclude the full expression and development of one's own perspective, and partially it's a matter of some positions best being best expressed in the tone "try thinking of it this way"
richard rorty, contingency, irony, solidarity, pg. 9 This sort of philosophy does not work piece by piece, analyzing concept 11fter concept, or testing thesis after thesis. Rather, it works holistically and pragmatically. It says things like "try thinking of it this way" - or more specifically, "try to ignore the apparently futile traditional questions by substituting the following new and possibly interesting questions." It does not pretend to have a better candidate for doing the same old things which we did when we spoke in the old way. Rather, it suggests that we might want to stop doing those things and do something else. But it does not argue for this suggestion on the basis of antecedent criteria common to the old and the new language games. For just insofar as the new language really is new, there will be no such criteria. Conforming to my own precepts, I am not going to offer arguments against the vocabulary I want to replace. Instead, I am going to try to make the vocabulary I favor look attractive by showing how it may be u11ed to describe a variety of topics
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over the years i've also become increasingly impressed with all the ways in which i can harm those i care for during the heat of passion. i've won plenty of arguments that have lost me plenty of friends, and i can tell you which constituent i recall more vividly.
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retweeting is me saying i love you for your autistic tendencies with an exclamation point
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re-located my habitat
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she's doing this
finn making a goose and a fox kiss adventure time, "Storytelling"
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i didn't think i'd make it this far
pr . .. ..etty.. .
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hi
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marx's value theory is not trying to establish an operational standard for price at all, it's explaining the process of equalization of different forms of labor that actually take place
https://x.com/PoliticsWillow/status/1832259354587783168 marx, capital volume 1, pg 197 If the conditions of production, or the productivity oflabour, remain constant, the same amount of social labour-time must be expended on the reproduction of a quarter of wheat, both before and after the change in price. This situation is not dependent either on the will of the wheat producer or on that of the owners of the other commodities. The magnitude of the value of a commodity therefore expresses a necessary relation to social labour-time which is inherent in the proces by which its value is created. With the transformation of the magnitude of value into the price this necessary relation appears as the exchange-ratio between a single commodity and the money commodity which exists outside it. This relation, however, may express both the magnitude of value of the commodity and the greater or lesser quantity of money for which it can be sold under the given circumstances. The possibility, therefore, of a quantitative incongruity between price and magnitude of value, i.e. the possibility that the price may diverge from the magnitude of value, is inherent in the price-form itself. This is not a defect, but, on the contrary, it makes this form the adequate one for a mode of production whose laws can only assert themselves as blindly operating averages between constant irregularities. The price-form, however, is not only compatible with the possibility of a quantitative incongruity between magnitude of value and price, i.e. between the magnitude of value and its own expression in money, but it may also harbour a qualitative contradiction, with the result that price ceases altogether to express value, despite the fact that money is nothing but the value-form of commodities.
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don't encourage it suibari
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kasey — Today at 12:13 PM meow babe i need help how do i convince danii bunnii willow — Today at 12:14 PM abt what kasey — Today at 12:14 PM that it's value theory of labor not labor theory of value quick i need to pwn her https://tenor.com/view/cute-cat-bunny-bugs-heart-gif-20954834 willow — Today at 12:14 PM why do you pick these fights you cant win lol
willowMar 2, 2025
kasey literally nerdsniped me
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here's the gif btw

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a cat is laying on a bed with a pink blanket .

Alt: bunny that hops and flips the original alt text is: "a cat is laying on a bed with a pink blanket ." ???

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it pretty logically follows i think
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The object of Marx's theory of value was not exploitation or prices, but labor itself. Marx wasn’t searching for a price determinant and finding the answer in labor. Rather, he was trying to figure out why labor takes on the form that it does in capitalism and what consequences follow from this.
willowNov 26, 2024
reminder that marx didn’t have a LTV
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libcom.org/article/valu...

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The Value Theory of Labour - Diane Elson

Seminal essay from 1979 from Diane Elson arguing for the importance of Marx’s “Value Theory of Labour.” The essay was a product of debates within the Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE). Full PDF...

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i mean its not even esoteric he just has pretty solid conceptual clarity, which is a massive triumph in comparison to the quality of marxist thought going on at the time
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like rubin is shockingly good for how early he is www.marxists.org/archive/rubi...

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Abstract Labour and Value in Marx's System by I. I. Rubin 1927

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IT IS OUR TASK TO ANALYZE THE LAWS OF SOCIAL EQUALIZATION SLUG
Isaak Illich Rubin, Essays on Marx's Theory of Value, page 169 With this interpretation of the labor theory of value, one cannot deny the fact that one h o u r of the jeweller's labor and four hours of the shoemaker's labor represent, from a physiological point of view, unequal quantities of labor. Every a t t e m p t to represent one h o u r of qualified labor as physiologically condensed labor and equal, in terms of energy, to several hours of simple labor, seems hopeless and methodologically incorrect. Qualified labor is, in fact, condensed, multiplied, potential labor; it is not physiologically, but socially condensed. The labor theory of value does not affirm the physiological equality but the social equalization of labor which, in turn, of course takes place on the basis of properties which characterize labor f r o m the material-technical and physiological aspects (see the end of the previous chapter). On the market, products are not exchanged in terms of equal, but of equalized quantities of labor. It is our task to analyze the laws of the social equalization of various f o r m s of labor in the process of social distribution of labor. If these laws explain the causes of the equalization of one hour of the jeweller's labor with four hours of the unquali- fied worker's labor, then our problem is solved, irrespective of the physiological equality or inequality of these socially equalized quantities of labor. The second objection of Marx's critics assigns to economic theory a task which is in no way proper to it: to find a standard of value which would make it operationally possible to compare different kinds of labor with each other. However, the theory of value is not concerned with the analysis or search for an operational standard of equalization; it seeks a causal explanation of the objective process of equalization of different forms of labor which actually takes place in a commodity capitalist society.
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kasey literally nerdsniped me
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i was chill!!! i was watching films!! and now i'm downloading isaak illich rubin and dunayevskaya
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like bro i'm cumming all over my keyboard rn
Isaak Illich Rubin, Essays on Marx's Theory of Value, page 68 In a primitive communistic community, or in a feudal village, the product of labor has "value" (tsennost) in the sense of utility, use value, but it does not have "value" (stoimost). The product acquires value (stoimostj only in conditions where it is produced specifically for sale and acquires, on the market, an objective and exact evaluation which equalizes it (through m o n e y ) with all other commodities and gives it the property of being exchangeable for any other commodity. In other words, a determined form of economy (commodity economy), a determined form of organization of labor through separate, privately-owned enterprises, are assumed. Labor does n o t , in itself, give value to the product, b u t only that labor which is organized in a determined social form (in the form of a commodity economy). If producers are related to each other as formally independent organizers of economic activity and as autonomous commodity producers, then the values of their labor confront each other on the market as "values." The equality of commodity producers as organizers of individual economic units and as contractors of production relations of exchange, is expressed in equality among the products of labor as values. The value of tilings expresses a determined type of production relations among people. If the product of labor acquires value only in a determined social f o r m of organization of labor, then value does not represent a " property " of the product of labor, but a determined "social form" or "social function" which the product of labor fulfills as a connecting link between dissociated commodity producers, as
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THE RELATIONS BETWEEN ABSTRACT LABOR AND VALUE CANNOT BE THOUGHT OF AS RELATIONS BETWEEN PHYSICAL CAUSES AND PHYSICAL EFFECTS. VALUE IS THE MATERIAL EXPRESSION OF SOCIAL LABOR, IN THE SPECIFIC FORM WHICH LABOR POSSESS IN A COMMODITY ECONOMY, I.E. ABSTRACT LABOR
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i am literally having a manic episode over abstract labor rn
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no its true
Karl Marx The Civil War in France Written: July 1870 - May 1871; First Published: 1871; Source: English Edition of 1871; Transcription/Markup: Zodiac & Brian Baggins; Proofed: and corrected by Matthew Carmody 2009. I'M IN HEAT. I WILL LITERALLY SUCK ANY OF YOU OFF RN. I'M SO FUCKING RAAAAAA https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/
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Political economy has indeed analysed value and its magnitude, however incompletely, and has uncovered the content concealed within these forms. But it has never once asked the question why this content has assumed that particular form, that is to say,
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why labour is expressed in value, and why the measurement of labour by its duration is expressed in the magnitude of the value of the product. - Marx, Capital Vol. 1, 173-174
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I'M IN HEAT. I WILL LITERALLY SUCK ANY OF YOU OFF RN. I'M SO FUCKING RAAAAAA
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banger
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the theoretically sensitized lover constantly works with the reflexive instruments of ambiguity and irony, relativization and distance, the endless play of “as if"
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significantly modified quote from Raymond Geuss, "The Actual and Another Modernity: Order and Imagination in Don Quixote" in Politics and the Imagination, pg. 79.
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hahaha i knew that's where you were getting it from

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i love sound i love sound i love sound
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the voice of a lover, the hum of a computer, the crackle of a tape, the murmur of a lecture hall, the rest in a measure. i'm grateful for it all.
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i used a friend's alt client that they're keeping somewhat priv, but links themselves are just facets so you could login to pdsls and create a post record manually as a middle ground (yes it's painful but i have done this before)
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For we are not chasing after some dream of justice; we are doing what must be done, what cannot be left undone. The old world dug its own grave, and is now falling in. Let’s give it a little shove. - Victor Serge, Conquered City, pg 37
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reference to Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, On Old and New Tablets, §20 "O my brothers, am I cruel? But I say: what is falling, we should still push."
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