@dreary.dev - Replies (page 88)

cool story but the appropriator of surplus value is entirely irrelevant to the degree and magnitude of exploitation.

Marx, Capital Volume 1, 159
Although the rate of surplus-value is an exact expression for the degree of exploitation of labour-power, it is, in no sense, an expression for the absolute amount of exploitation. For example, if the necessary labour = 5 hours and the surplus labour = 5 hours, the degree of exploitation is 100%. The amount of exploitation is here measured by 5 hours. If, on the other hand, the necessary labour = 6 hours and the surplus labour = 6 hours, the degree of exploitation remains, as before, 100%, while the actual amount of exploitation has increased 20%, namely from five hours to six.

capital is the automatic subject; the specific personification is of marginal significance. co-op capitalism merely turns workers into managers of their own exploitation.

i don’t care if it’s an owner despotically or my peers (and myself) democratically cracking the whip. and frankly i’d prefer not to deform myself into a petit bourgeois in the process. as you correctly point out, the form of the firm changes nothing meaningful while the law of value remains intact.

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oh and by no means necessary but my go-to audio companion rec is the harvey lectures (old or new) dreary.dev/politics/#ma...

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Reading Marx's Capital Vol I with David David Harvey (2019) - YouTube

i’m not evil enough to recommend heinrich’s “intro to the three volumes” as it’s quite a bit more opinionated lol

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since i would be remiss not to provide a citation as an exercise for the reader, have a picture from the copy of capital on my work laptop

Marx, Capital Volume 1, pg 216
Within the process of production, as we have seen, capital acquired the command over labour, i.e., over functioning labour-power or the labourer himself. Personified capital, the capitalist takes care that the labourer does his work regularly and with the proper degree of intensity.
Capital further developed into a coercive relation, which compels the working class to do more work than the narrow round of its own life-wants prescribes. As a producer of the activity of others, as a pumper-out of surplus labour and exploiter of labour-power, it surpasses in energy, disregard of bounds, recklessness and efficiency, all earlier systems of production based on directly compulsory labour.

“obviously small businesses are exploitative! co-ops on the other hand…”

capital is the automatic subject; the specific personification is of marginal significance. co-op capitalism merely turns workers into managers of their own exploitation.

“obviously small businesses are exploitative! co-ops on the other hand…”

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kasey will never understand this mindset

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it’s so heartwarming that the #FortnitePorn community has so much engagement

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wrong futur, if you want a relay you need 30 million dollars

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Free Our Feeds FAQ
What will the money be used for? v
It will take $30M over three years for us to realize our three step plan to free our feeds from billionaire control:
• Establish a public-interest foundation to support Bluesky's underlying technology, the AT Protocol, to become independent and globally standardized.
• Build independent infrastructure, such as a second "relay," guaranteeing Bluesky users and developers have uninterrupted access to data streams, regardless of corporate decisions.
• Fund developers to create a vibrant ecosystem of social applications built on open protocols, fostering healthier and
more equitable online spaces.

it’s so funny that that’s the only specific deliverable they describe in the whole thing lmfao

obligatory adorno reference

In the winter of 1923, Siegfried Kracauer sent a letter to Leo Lawenthal concerning the young Theodor Adorno: "If Teddie ever decides to make a declaration of love so as to escape from the sinful state of bachelorhood', Kracauer quipped, he would 'be sure to phrase it so obscurely that the young lady concerned ... will be unable to understand what he is saying unless she has read the complete works of Kierkegaard."

i’m so autistic pls god i hope this is working

oh now you finally decide to post okay buddy

hmm that’s nice and all but i’d prefer you adopt a more active ethnographic participant observation methodology

you sure take a lot of notes missy

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at some point i stopped looking for samples and just started listening to music 😭

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still i would not tolerate it

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oh no, definitely wasn’t saying you’re doing anything wrong or should swap. just seems like it’s been a little bumpy and i feel for ya. it’s probably just standard linux woes

willowFeb 27, 2025

every time i see you post about ubuntu it makes me cry inside a little bit for you