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Mar 15

🧵 On the Gold Standard.

1/4 The reason we believe it is so important to study the gold standard is that since the United States abandoned it in 1971, labor hours have not decreased and have instead remained stagnant.

This was a deliberate attack on the working class.

2/3 Unions have also capitulated to this reality, instead focusing on demanding higher wages—which will ultimately be eroded by inflation. This ability to erode wages and extend work hours is a hidden feature of the fiat dollar system. Bourgeois economists call it "full employment."

3/4 Due to the hidden power of fiat currency, wages can increase, but inflation can increase faster. This is why Marx ultimately concluded that workers could "rob" capitalists by shortening work hours:

"If the laborer uses his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist."

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Mar 10

🧵Quotes from Nick Land (@xenocosmography) that are similar to Karl Marx.

1: Accelerating accumulation as the definition of capital:

Land: “Among [accelerationism’s] predictions is the expectation that you’ll be too slow to deal with it coherently.”

Marx: “Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, …”

2: Capital as a process headed to a final crisis:

Land: “[The] deep problem of acceleration is transcendental [that] describes an absolute horizon – and one that is closing in.”

Marx: “As soon as labour in the direct form has ceased to be the great well-spring of wealth, labour time ceases and must cease to be its measure, and hence exchange value [must cease to be the measure] of use value. The surplus labour of the mass has ceased to be the condition for the development of general wealth, just as the non-labour of the few, for the development of the general powers of the human head. With that, production based on exchange value breaks down, and the direct, material production process is stripped of the form of penury and antithesis.”

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Dec 23, 2024

🧵 How the Bolshevik revolution turned Russia into a Chess superpower.

https://x.com/RTSG_Main/status/1868090966428774557

In an earlier thread, we explained how the Communist Revolution led to a radical reduction in working hours, giving millions of people ample free time to engage in various activities, including sports. One sport in particular—chess—eventually became a staple of Soviet society.

https://x.com/RTSG_Main/status/1868090966428774557

Chess was typically an upper-class activity. Despite this, Soviet society, once an impoverished nation with a massive peasantry class, not only industrialized but also went on to dominate the 20th century in chess.

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Dec 15, 2024

🧵 How Soviet Workers benefited from the shortest working day in the world:

The Soviet Constitution of 1936, also known as the "Stalin Constitution," was approved by the Eighth Congress of Soviets and became law on December 5, 1936.

The right of citizens of the Soviet Union to rest and leisure is promised in Article 119 of the Constitution of the USSR

For its time, the Soviet Union had the shortest working day in the world.

A minimum of two weeks' vacation with full pay was also guaranteed.

Employees in healthcare, engineering, technical fields, & scientific research were often entitled to 1 month or more of paid vacation.

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Dec 9, 2024

🚨🇨🇳On Wen Tiejun and his theory of “Rural Revitalization” - By @ChenKojira 🚨🧵
It has come to our attention that many people on X have repeatedly slandered Wen Tiejun over the past few days in regards to his proximity to China’s Central Committee policy regarding rural revitalization. There are people who have claimed that Professor Wen Tiejun is merely “peripheral” to the communist party and actually is in contradiction to Central policy towards rural revitalization.

This is entirely false. The following thread will systematically breakdown Wen Tiejun’s core views on rural revitalization and agriculture, simultaneously going into how it relates to Central policy.

1) Who is Wen Tiejun?
Wen Tiejun, a native of Beijing and Changli County , Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, is the dean of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Sustainable Development at Renmin University of China, president and editor-in-chief of China Reform and Reform Insider magazines, and a well-known agricultural expert, particularly on the “Three Rural Issues”. (1)

More importantly, he is also a provincial and ministerial policy expert at the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Commerce, the State Forestry Administration, the State Grain Administration, a consultant to the Beijing Municipal Government, a consultant to the Fujian Provincial government, and vice president of the China Agricultural Economics Society.(2）

He has also been nominated as a member of the National Environmental Advisory Committee. In 2007, he was elected as the Vice President of the Chinese Agricultural Economics Society. In 2008, he was appointed by the State Council Academic Degree Committee as a member of the Agricultural and Forestry Economic Management Group of the Sixth Discipline Evaluation Group. In 2012, he served as the Executive Dean of the China Rural Construction College of Southwest University, and in 2013, he served as the Executive Vice Dean of the Straits Rural Construction College of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University. (3)

Clearly, based on his consistent accolades, not just academically but politically, he is not “peripheral” from the central government at all. He has been appointed as consultants for provincial governments. He has also served as a policy expert at at least three different agricultural government bodies. He is not by any means, “peripheral” to the central government.

2) The “Three Rural Issues”

The three rural issues are agriculture, rural areas and farmers. (4)

First, agriculture has to deal with low production efficiency, low quality of food, poor food security, low competitiveness and poor ecological health. Secondly, rural areas experience poverty, backwards infrastructure and poor living standards. Third, farmers have to deal with the urban-rural gap both in income, education and quality of life. (5)

It can be summarized as ensuring the development of agriculture, prevention of ecological disaster, ensuring food security, eliminating rural poverty, rural revitalization and improving the quality of life of farmers.

The concept of the three rural issues was first mentioned and turned into a proper academic term in 2001 by Li Changping, Party Secretary of Qipan Township in Jianli County, Hubei Province. Li wrote a letter to Premier Zhu Rongji stating that “farmers are suffering, rural areas are poor, and agriculture is in danger”. (6) The term “Three rural issues” was mentioned for the first time in 2003 in a CPC Central Committee work report. (7)

Prior to the adoption of the term in 2003, Wen Tiejun was discussing the concept of the “Three rural issues” as early as 2001. And he was conducting research in rural regions tackling issues of rural revitalization, peasant problems and agricultural issues on behalf of the Central Rural Policy Research Office in the mid 1980's. (8) We can safely establish from these facts, Wen Tiejun is definitely a well versed expert in agricultural matters, being apart of the sent down cadres during the Cultural Revolution when he was 16, dedicating his entire life to the purpose of agricultural research.

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Nov 27, 2024

Who funded the Nazis? All the most influential financial backers of the Nazi Party compiled into one thread 🧵

1. The Thule Society

The Thule Society was an offshoot of the Germananorden, a theosophic/ariosophic organization heavily influenced by the Freemasons with many ties to European noble aristocracy. How much exactly they gave is unknown, but they are the ones responsible for creating the original German Workers Party, the predecessor of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

2. Governor of the Bank of England, Montagu Norman

Montagu Norman was the governor of the Bank of England, at one time the largest financial institution in the world. He was a friend of Alfred Rosenberg and Hjamlar Schacht, and donated money to the Nazis through a third-party bank. He was also pro-Germany in foreign policy, anti-France, anti-Russia, and most importantly, anti-Semitic. Rosenberg met with Norman to secure loans not from the Bank of England directly, but rather from the Stein Bank, which had connections to the Schroder Bank, and finally to the Bank of England. This meeting would lay the groundwork for the British-Nazi relationship that would eventually result in Montagu Norman giving secret loans to the Nazi government in 1934.

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