Marx on vampires:>As a capitalist, he is merely capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital, which knows only one drive in life: the drive to valorize itself; to create surplus-value; to use its constant part, the means of production, to absorb the greatest possible quantity of surplus-labor. Capital is dead labor that acts like a vampire: it comes to life only when it drinks living labor, and the more living labor it drinks, the more it comes to life. The time when the worker is working is the time when the capitalist consumes the labor-power he has bought. When a worker uses his disposable time for his own purposes, he is stealing from the capitalist.-Das KapitalOP's note: By 'dead labor' he means wealth that embodies the labor *used to create it* that was squeezed out like toothpaste from wage slavesQuestions welcomeSister thread on /lit/, a dialectical reading group>>>/lit/25245880
>>534451599>I have to retcon the Sin of Greed because I am a kvetching Jew with some knowledge of Lutheranism and Hegel.Just stop, please.
>>534451599Glory to the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism-MaoismDown with the ZOG
>>534451599Why cant we have a Socialsm general?
>>534452202>retconGreat reddit term, very powerful btw, but the way you used it is just a word salad here. And Capital actually references Aristotle more than any other thinker
TOTAL COMMUNIGGER DEATH
>>534453335Socialism as a broader ideology generally includes things like the welfare state but broader and all sorts of other elements. Same reason I don't care too much for the idea of a Leftism General
>>534453446Shit like the promiscuous hoards and no owning things has made me hate Communism and how it tainted socialism and now normies cant tell the difference.
>>534453612>shit in capitalist countries makes me hate communsim
>>534454014Communism sort of never really succeeding makes being a communist appear....sub-ideal
>>534454106As a laborer, you can be for rule by your class, or continuing to be a wage slave. It doesn't really go any other way
>>534454196>As a laborerThe worker identity is a slave identity. Upend the holders of power and watch what happens when you create a void; the stratification happens again once the chaos subsides. Your life consists of being under the thumb of the mafia, getting picky about the organizational structure is fucking irrelevant
>>534453612"Socialism" is basically the economic system in Communism.This obfuscation is intentional.
>>534454617>welfare stateI can't completely blame lolberts for retconning 19th century German Conservatism as "socialism."
>>534454370Unions are corrupt, therefore it is no better than working as a slave in an ancient salt mine?Definately wage slaves are the slave class. Identifying yourself as the class is not what capitalism wants, they want you to identify with anything else, hence why wage slaves are hardly depicted in media or socializing with each other unless they're fat clowns, because we are supposed to see ourselves as the other class and identify with their interests
>>534453335Because people are too lazy and afraid. They’ve grown complacent with using reddit as the main place for discourse as well not realizing it has sedated them.
>>534455410>There's 7 Deadly Sins that can make you a SlaveFocus only on Greed.Even Marx didn't do that.STOP(((SECULAR WASHING)))LUTHER
>>534455552Luther didn't invent greed as a sin
>>534455607You're not going to get away with sneaking in Continental Philosophy's retarded Jewish Cousin on my watch.
>>534455817Marx is the only thinker who understood and said that protestantism came from the rising middle class and their worldview that they wee closer to God than priests or nobility are, so their new form of Christianity reflected their values. Most thinkers like Weber saw capitalism as coming out of protestant values
>>534455433"Socialism" is a much more poltically "safe" term than Marxism is
>>534457594Most Americans don't even know what socialism is, even a lot of the berniebros who call themselves socialists.
>>534458650That's why it is politically safe
