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can't say i've read everything but i like him! reproduction of everyday life is on my old reading list dreary.dev/politics/#ma...

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.

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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.

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

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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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.

exploitation does not hinge on abuses of power, how much workers are paid, or even distinct personification. in the first place technical usage, exploitation is simply surplus-value.

in the broader sense, exploitation hinges on whether one’s abilities are used for the benefit of another to one’s own detriment, where the nature of the subjects in the relation are under-determined.

marx speaks of the exploitation of machinery, for example. the same logic applies for personified capital, where the exploiter cannot be simply identified as a human individual.

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