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.

kasey literally nerdsniped me

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,

the theoretically sensitized lover constantly works with the reflexive instruments of ambiguity and irony, relativization and distance, the endless play of “as if"

i love sound i love sound i love sound

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

im different, checking clearsky every month or so just makes me super happy and is very good for me, i love my friends

for the first time in quite a while, i felt a degree of control over my tempo. i regained an appreciation for rhythm, even if transient.

alternation of flights and perchings :)

today was a pre-kasey post-employment -coded weekend day and it was pretty cool for that

old willow skeets that never saw the light of day

istg i’m not doing this on purpose, people keep coming after me

oops fatigue

GAME CHANGER: Ctrl+Shift+Return still works to spawn the composer and publish a post, not just Ctrl+Return

no matter what other disagreements we have, at least we can all come to consensus that hannah arendt sucked

my life is so awesome rn. i'm playing voxelibre, listening to gillian rose, and drinking mint tea. we are so back

our real opinion is not one in which we have never wavered, but the one to which we have most regularly returned.

i’d like to apologize for the incessant marx-posting but in my defense everyone was talking about my autism special interest

bunnies are out here like “hop hop hop” and i’m all like “walks walks walks”

all my friends are so cool and talented

“my girlfriend is fucking your girlfriend wayyyy better than your girlfriend is fucking my girlfriend”

god damnit my humanities night is rained out because everyone had their own humanities night without me

my sibling in christ, the co-op workers *are* capitalists lol

The bloody farce enacted by this Revolution, its 'immorality', does not concern me: what I hate is its Rousseauesque morality; the so-called 'truths' of the Revolution through which it persuades everything shallow and mediocre over to its side. The doctrine of equality! There exists no worse poison.

buckle up chat we're humanities-pilled tonight

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

can’t take back what i did to you

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

they’re saying she has range

zooooom

i use linux mint for similar reasons i use librewolf: i get to free ride on upstream corpo-backed software while someone stands in the middle to tear out most of the gross stuff for me. i like that they lag behind and are relatively feature poor.

seeing the response to this is genuinely so baffling. like everyone thinks moralism === evaluation and it’s just so sad

one of my primary love languages is meditating on a text that has significance to the beloved

country pumpkin

i got worried river was a kasey clone for a second there

tfw your targeted subtweet apology doesn’t get liked by the intended subject

i wanna go home and wash the filth away

i’m pretty bad at communicating ideas lol

where did i go wrong in life

please dont go we could never last I will keep you warm You always wanted me loving me is way too hard I can give you love i just want you back we were on the phone it was all for you why do i try I'm feeling better my bad I am tired of you leaving im leaving to tokyo tell me what i should do

following me is fun because you’re basically following a curated presentation of previous willow posts

lock in faggots new rossi just dropped damagemag.com/2025/02/25/s...

i’ve been failing a lot of social quick time events lately

psychopaths and autistic people