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General Megathreat : It's 19th of January, 2021 and

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"You've met with a terrible fate haven't you?" :xi-lib-tears:

thing to look out for during Bidens Presidency

The US is facing a dollar collapse by the end of 2021 and an over 50% chance of a double-dip recession :dumpster-fire:

Patriot Act Volume 2 :cia:

Increased Militarization of the USA :top-cop:

Little to none Covid19 Relief bills for workers :POG-19:

Even more agressive Foreign Policy :blob-on-fire:

Continue the Concentration camps policy :biden-nibble:

More Austerity Policies :this-is-fine:

and many more!!

Good luck

The State and Revolution

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The Conquest of Bread

Remember, sort by new you :LIB:

Yesterday’s megathread :sad-boi:

Follow the ChapoChat twitter account :comrade-birdie:

THEORY; it’s good for what ails you (all kinds of tendencies inside!) :RIchard-D-Wolff:

COMMUNITY CALENDAR - AN EXPERIMENT IN PROMOTING USER ORGANIZING EFFORTS :af:

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  • :quark: I see you Hoo-mans are all aflutter with picking your new leader in one of your so called "capitalist" nations. Such a silly little tradition. In Feringinar, the person with the most latinum is simply declared Grand Nagus. Your hoo-man leaders are rich, but not even closest to being the richest on the planet! You can't even do that right. Your politicians are laughably cheap too, in Feringinar it'd cost you thousands of latinum bars to bribe a politician! Here it just seems to cost as little as a few thousand of your worthless american dollars. Hahaaha you Hoo-mans just can't do anything right. :quark:

    • When your show is science fiction so you can write the libertarian character to be a literal ass-head :cool-dad:

  • So at my new job today I was filling out a profile on myself and when it came to "sexual preference" it had straight, gay, bi, and then it has transgender. Am I losing my marbles or is that not what that means? I put enby on my gender so I know it didn't mean that. Idk if that's normal just tell me I'm losing it cuz I was very confused

  • The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,”1 its unit being a single commodity. Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a commodity.

    A commodity is, in the first place, an object outside us, a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another. The nature of such wants, whether, for instance, they spring from the stomach or from fancy, makes no difference.2 Neither are we here concerned to know how the object satisfies these wants, whether directly as means of subsistence, or indirectly as means of production.

    Every useful thing, as iron, paper, &c., may be looked at from the two points of view of quality and quantity. It is an assemblage of many properties, and may therefore be of use in various ways. To discover the various uses of things is the work of history.3 So also is the establishment of socially-recognized standards of measure for the quantities of these useful objects. The diversity of these measures has its origin partly in the diverse nature of the objects to be measured, partly in convention.

    The utility of a thing makes it a use value.4 But this utility is not a thing of air. Being limited by the physical properties of the commodity, it has no existence apart from that commodity. A commodity, such as iron, corn, or a diamond, is therefore, so far as it is a material thing, a use value, something useful. This property of a commodity is independent of the amount of labour required to appropriate its useful qualities. When treating of use value, we always assume to be dealing with definite quantities, such as dozens of watches, yards of linen, or tons of iron. The use values of commodities furnish the material for a special study, that of the commercial knowledge of commodities.5 Use values become a reality only by use or consumption: they also constitute the substance of all wealth, whatever may be the social form of that wealth. In the form of society we are about to consider, they are, in addition, the material depositories of exchange value.

    Exchange value, at first sight, presents itself as a quantitative relation, as the proportion in which values in use of one sort are exchanged for those of another sort,6 a relation constantly changing with time and place. Hence exchange value appears to be something accidental and purely relative, and consequently an intrinsic value, i.e., an exchange value that is inseparably connected with, inherent in commodities, seems a contradiction in terms.7 Let us consider the matter a little more closely.

    A given commodity, e.g., a quarter of wheat is exchanged for x blacking, y silk, or z gold, &c. – in short, for other commodities in the most different proportions. Instead of one exchange value, the wheat has, therefore, a great many. But since x blacking, y silk, or z gold &c., each represents the exchange value of one quarter of wheat, x blacking, y silk, z gold, &c., must, as exchange values, be replaceable by each other, or equal to each other. Therefore, first: the valid exchange values of a given commodity express something equal; secondly, exchange value, generally, is only the mode of expression, the phenomenal form, of something contained in it, yet distinguishable from it.

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