oji

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[–] oji@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of the conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class made into a law for all, a will, whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of existence of your class.

Manifesto of the Communist Party

[–] oji@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] oji@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] oji@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] oji@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Meanwhile inside the CIA:

cia

I urge you to read this document, it leads to some interesting thoughts.

[–] oji@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

as much as any other person - a standard serving of three rubs

[–] oji@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago
[–] oji@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

We're talking about very different categories. Your post is about consumer behavior and increasing exploitation of employees by underpaying even a living wage. I'm talking about the capitalist system itself - c + v + m, where m is surplus value. That's what a capitalist gets after they invests (and returns) their capital over and above the costs. Workers, on the other hand, do not receive a fair wage (in which case the net profit would be distributed equally among productive workers, adjusted by the difficulty of reproducing labor), but only the portion necessary for them to return to the labor market again and again. I will insist once again on the need to study Capital, at least its first volume. For a better understanding, of course, you should read a textbook on dialectical materialism, but it is not absolutely necessary.

[–] oji@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Sure, and I love the great memes that get posted here. But this one distorts history beyond all measure. Japanese militarism in government circles hasn't gone anywhere, and neither has the desire for revenge. However, the American dropping of atomic bombs on civilians is not a joke either, but an unconcealed genocide. A demonstration of force, first of all, to intimidate opponents from the socialist camp.

[–] oji@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (9 children)

Then, it is every capitalist business with hired employees other than the owner of the capital. After all, the very essence, the source of profit is the exploitation of labor above and beyond the wages paid. Without that, no one will start such a business. Read Marx's Capital, comrades, before it is banned.

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