Capital, capitalism etc is fundamentally a social relation between human beings (and certainly not some autonomous 'intelligence') and it doesn't matter how many layers of woo woo you put on top of that basic fact
Oct 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I don't think you have a belief in class or anything besides scoring easy points by chud dunking, and your content demonstrates that.
Like if you actually were a 'class struggle guy' then you would talk about that instead of incessant snipes at incels, Jordan Peterson, debate bros, anime nazis, stuff that is ultimately quite marginal to the liberation of the proletariat. Dont you have a world to win?
Oct 18, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
No it isn't. Anyway, people should definitely read Locke, esp. the passages in that very same book where he stresses that nobody has the rights to our bodies except for ourselves (see section 27), which would make his philosophy entirely at odds with what Hunt is proposing
The idea that Locke would sign on to "we have a right to sex with other people" is so bogus, its such a laughable critique. That such a sentiment is present in embryo is only slightly less goofy and banks on the ignorance of other people not doing the reading
Aug 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Its impossible to understand the rise of Sam Harris without considering the cultural context of the Bush years. There's much to be said but he was the first to fill the niche of "both Muslims AND Republicans are irrational" which a (now uncommon) kind of center-lib needed
So he would support the war on terror on the grounds that Muslims are deranged w/berserk death drives while simultaneously disavowing the American religious right even as they conducted it. This was deeply appealing to many but especially our media class at the time
Jul 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Not really. There are points of similarity but the vast majority of medieval apprentices werent wage laborers, their masters weren't capitalists, nor was the larger society in which they lived shaped by those social property relations which are unique to capitalist laws of motion
And by the latter i mean, as Wood says, the *imperatives* of competition + profit-maximization, the *compulsion* to reinvest surplus, a systematic need to improve labor productivity and the forces of production. That wasn't really present in medieval guild labor
I'm in a workshop that I don't own and a capitalist is paying me to use his machinery to make jewelry which he then sells for a profit...seems like I'm a proletarian worker. But perhaps Marx failed to consider that I have purple hair...
Jul 17, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
There are so many things wrong with this thread I don't even know where to begin but Starbucks workers are proletarian
For a wage, they mix their labor with the raw materials (sugar, cream, milk, etc) and the fixed capital they don't own (the machines) of the store/production site to produce commodities (the tasty beverages) which have a use and exchange value seems pretty prole to me
Mar 24, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Your instincts were correct: the shift from material to 'immaterial' labor was mostly a bunch of bullshit
I get that there is a need for the aggregation/parsing of data, to 'manufacture' affects on a grand scale, that expanding bureaucracies require more energy etc all the usual explanations but much of it really is just a waste of time. so much of the economy is fake
Feb 17, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
POV: You are Satan breaking your tools after you have finished with them
This guy is the ideal subject for the new 'distributed repression' shit that intel agencies and NGOs began under Trump and are now perfecting: both sadistic and submissive, has delusions of omnipotence, compulsively discloses himself to the world etc. They want thousands of these
Jan 21, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Something conservatives often miss is that left wing organizations have a major, if not primary, source of funding through corporations/foundations, NOT the government. NPR (a boomercon bugbear if one ever existed) had its budget cut but 'philanthropy' swooped in to save the day
the entirety of the activist left is downstream from a small number of immensely powerful foundations (ford, gates, open society, carnegie, tides, etc). If a rightwing government ever 'took them to task' the culture would change overnight, dont let anyone tell you otherwise
literally has a cushy gig at blazeTV (tweet something like "AUSTRALIA HAS FALLEN!" every now and then, bait about Ilhan Omar's Islamocommiefascism) but he just had to sonnenrad-post i guess
America is less free than Russia or China or Iran are and its not even close
Just checked in on 'disinfo' twitter and its sickening to see the media/ngo/intel agency blob take isolated, unhappy, and no doubt unbelievably anxious people and instrumentalize them for their perverse system of distributed surveillance against their fellow citizens
Aug 21, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
people really be on this website with handles like 'dumpster rosa luxembourg' or 'trashbag lenin' or 'gutter kropotkin with a heart of gold' bitch you went to Dartmouth
I fucking HATE the 'trash left'/'gutterpunk' aesthetic
Jan 3, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
its hilarious that conceptual james and rufo have decided to seize upon Hegel of all people as THE evil ur-totalitarian woke precursor when his actual politics was more similar to their own grating centrism
Hegel was horrified by 'excesses' on both the left (The Terror, although he supported the revolution) and the right (he opens the philosophy of right with a salvo against the 'irrationalist', 'romantic', 'volkish' right). He advocated a liberal constitutional monarchy
