Nazi removed go follow your leader

Makes sense, the dwp and jobs centres are absolute black holes of shit. If you are lucky you might live in a place where the jobseeker overseers aren’t absolute bastards and are quite lax on requirements.

Disabled and out of work and don’t even want to touch trying to get PIP after being denied access to jobseekers for not working enough. Entire system is made to make you feel like you’re desperately going cap in hand for scraps which they can deny you for bullshit. I fear what it would do to my mental considering work made me suicidal because of how hard it was for me to keep up a facade of being “with it”.

Plus access to work, applied for it at the start of my 1 year fixed term contract, took them 14 months to get back to me so I got nothing, they just closed my case.

Fed uk is so bad lmao, the uk subs are absolutely trash and I don’t expect anything sensible to come out of it

Exchange values are based on socially necessary labour time, not just any individuals labour time spent on making a commodity. In other words, the social average expected time taken to make any given good is what informs its exchange value. This means that exchange value is inclusive of the average number of burnt cookies produced by an average chef/cookie machine.

Machinery imparts no value into any single good because most machines can produce tens of thousands of commodities before requiring maintenance or replacing. The labour time spent making the machine is distributed evenly across the commodities it produces, so if it took 150 hours to make the machine, and the machine makes 50000 things before it breaks, each commodity has 150/50000 = 0.003 hours of labour time imparted as value into the object, I.e. it’s basically a rounding error.

Marx’s Capital mentions at one point that the working class in Manchester were reliant on drugs like opium to cope with their insane working conditions and poor life/housing conditions.

It’s not a new thing at all.

The spectrum of autism isn’t mild to disabling.

It’s a spectrum of presenting symptoms. What “functional autism” is, is a constellation of symptoms that means you can just about navigate the world as expected by neurotypical people. “Non-functioning” autism or “profound” autism are where the constellation of symptoms makes you unable to function in the world. This is more often than not inclusive of non-verbal autisms and poor motor control autisms.

“Functional” autism can be disabling for the individual in certain conditions - they may be completely unable to read social cues, or be severely impacted by certain stimulatory environments.

https://www.ft.com/content/762cd291-2a62-4e00-b69f-c60f9ee31a6e?sharetype=blocked

The “functionality is entirely reliant on the US”. I.e. in order for Trident to function we need missiles from the US to carry the atomic warheads and we need to spend money every few years to replace old and out of date missiles. If the US decided to stop selling us the missiles Trident would cease to function. Ergo they have outsized control over our nuclear deterrent.

Trident’s functionality is entirely reliant on the US.

Our nuclear deterrent is the US’s nuclear deterrent but it’s parked in Scotland to have access to Russia’s western front.

Absolute insane suggestion that completely ignores the reasons why Russia invaded Ukraine in the first place.

Foundations laid today will be vital for the ripening of the movement tomorrow.

Writerism shakes fist

Nothing was ever achieved by people writing and sharing political theory and analysis of current material conditions.

And people definitely shouldn’t read what is to be done.

Lmfao good luck

Looking forward to the rest of the Chinese century 🫡

“Our report just said there were risks, we didn’t actually say you were using slave labour!”

What a fucking crock of shit. Chat shit get banged.

The last time any of those things were won by the working class they had come home angry and fed up fighting a war, and were ready to demand at least some concessions from the ruling class. These concessions were granted because the capitalists were terrified that an even angrier working class that knew how to use weapons and fight in an army would lead to a 1917 Russian revolution situation.

Until the same style of conditions exist I don’t think the working class are in any kind of place to just demand better from the capitalist class. Hopefully the next time we don’t just accept a bribe and let the next generation(s) eat shit while lapping it up.

Transportation is not, by Marx’s definition, work that belongs to circulation of commodities. And I would also say that logistics also falls into the same sphere as well. Both would constitute a part of the production process itself. As would, on social averages, the marketing departments that produce branding and the aesthetics of a commodity.

The clearest examples of unproductive workers are those paid from capital: workers involved in realising surplus value, I.e. sales teams, shop clerks. And workers paid from revenues: directly hired servants (More likely in Marx’s time), and workers hired by the state for local and state administration, and others like them whose labour is paid out of taxes (i.e. surplus value collected by the state), but some of these are part of the ‘faux frais’ of production itself - like health and education workers, and can constitute productive labour as such.

A good article breaking down the topic from across vol 1, 2 and 3 of capital plus the theories of surplus value:

https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/howell/produnprod.htm

Also, and it’s touched on in the article, the incessant need to split this or that labour into productive and unproductive feels almost entirely unnecessary in regards to the organisation of the proletariat toward revolutionary ends. That any given member of the working class is employed in productive or unproductive labour doesn’t change the potential precarity of their position as a waged labourer subject to the whims of capital and its state.

More likely just plain old US assets tbh.

If Russia had all this intel on these old fucks then they’d have released it already.

I appreciate that books are a bit harder to read than Wikipedia pages, but I really do recommend it.

I’ll be less glib: liberalism was used to justify French slave ownership too. It also has been the justification for global interventionist policy by the imperial core. “Bringing liberal democracy to dictatorships.”

But equally racialised minorities are still the people that bare the brunt of the systematic violence of Capitalism and the state repression. In this instance as an example this is targeted at Muslims, but in the racialised sense any person of MENA or Indian subcontinent ethnic origin (or who looks like it).