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cda
Jan 2, 2010

by Hand Knit
Hello I'm reading Marx right now (The Grundrisse) and its really good, has anyone read it, does anyone mind if I ask some questions about stuff I'm having trouble conceptualizing?

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GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
by all means, ask away. that’s what this thread is for, along with joke’s

Terrorist Fistbump
Jan 29, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Are you doing the David Harvey read-along lecture series?

cda
Jan 2, 2010

by Hand Knit

Terrorist Fistbump posted:

Are you doing the David Harvey read-along lecture series?

No, I just started a class about Marxism and literary theory. I did not know the Harvey thing existed but I just looked it up, thank you!

cda
Jan 2, 2010

by Hand Knit
I will come back with questions when I've had time to think them through but I just got to the point where he calls Malthus a baboon. Get his rear end, Karl!

Terrorist Fistbump
Jan 29, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo

cda posted:

No, I just started a class about Marxism and literary theory.

Badass

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.


zizek must have destroyed him so bad

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

quote:

Throwing out the Bread: Decleration of War on Breadtube in favor for the creation of IRL media cells / collectives / affinity groups.

We need to all take immediate action to negate the recuperation in social anarchist / socialist / leftist communities. We must not be under illusions that any politician, bread-tuber, party, mass political organization will be at all helpful. We are reproducing the very structures that we purport to be against, yet in all seriousness we dont have time to mope around in this late capitalist collapse hellhole. gently caress your boring politics, gently caress your corrupt politicians (Bernie, Corybyn, Lula, etc.), lets do something with our lives.

Its ok to be afraid, but the time for that is past and we must be brave. Start making plans when you are done reading this. This means pool money and go move in with your closest friends (internet included) and stop being workers. Anarchists must be more than mere rhetoricians of social anarchism and stop supporting broad front leftism. Stop with the mass organizations to whatever degree possible.

Stop with the mass organizations to whatever degree possible. We need This ultimately increases the power of the people who would see us all killed if it meant We need a global insurgency, an earth resistence movement, and insurrectionary cell formations like those springing up across the world. We are living in the time of climate collapse and mass extinction. Let us live our lives to the most. Start fighting back!

We need a global insurgency, an earth resistence movement, and insurrectionary cell formations like those springing up across the world. We are living in the time of climate collapse and mass extinction. Let us live our lives to the most. Start fighting back!

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


gently caress corruption?! corruption is how we win!

AnEdgelord
Dec 12, 2016

"Give up political organizing and start doing crimes that you can be arrested for"

This is textbook police spy poo poo

Terrorist Fistbump
Jan 29, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo

Reminiscing about the 00s...

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007
if you like & subscribe to our revolution, you can keep it

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames
"Stop with the mass organizations to whatever degree possible" is the funniest poo poo ive read

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZrAYxWPN6c

uncop
Oct 23, 2010
Laughing at the ”insurrectionary media cells” concept, what it conjures in my mind is what if Red Guards only aspired to do graffiti, guerrilla pig heads and small-scale personal harassment, and posted photos of it on their news site. Maybe some property damage too.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
they're right that "bread tube" should be destroyed

Terrorist Fistbump
Jan 29, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
:hmmyes:

FRINGE
May 23, 2003
title stolen for lf posting

Ok so wtf is a bread tube.

It better be a tube that bread comes in.

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


FRINGE posted:

Ok so wtf is a bread tube.

It better be a tube that bread comes in.

FRINGE
May 23, 2003
title stolen for lf posting
Whew. Good. I feel better now.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

FRINGE posted:

Ok so wtf is a bread tube.

It better be a tube that bread comes in.

disregard that frank its just a bunch of anarchist bullshit

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

FRINGE posted:

Ok so wtf is a bread tube.

It better be a tube that bread comes in.

bread tube is a nickname for a certain subset of youtubers whose entire concept is making loaves of bread

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos
also where's that from gradenko

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

uncop posted:

Laughing at the ”insurrectionary media cells” concept, what it conjures in my mind is what if Red Guards only aspired to do graffiti, guerrilla pig heads and small-scale personal harassment, and posted photos of it on their news site. Maybe some property damage too.
i think we should form what we could call "bread logs" to spread revolutionary propaganda and log our progress for interested people... for short we could call them "blogs"

Enjoy
Apr 18, 2009
breadtube is olly pulling natalie's hair and calling her a filthy whore

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Peanut President posted:

also where's that from gradenko

https://twitter.com/RealAnarchytube/status/1226326544798253057

freckle
Apr 6, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
lmao

Terrorist Fistbump
Jan 29, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
https://twitter.com/RealAnarchytube/status/1224523738000982016?s=19

Whoever's behind this found a bunch of old Crimethinc pamphlets lying around somewhere and took them too seriously lmao

AnEdgelord
Dec 12, 2016

1000% a cop

GunnerJ
Aug 1, 2005

Do you think this is funny?
Broke: To the barricades!
Woke: To the podcast!

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012

Free yourselves from the YouTubes, fellow workers! Our path to victory lies in the format of podcasts!

Terrorist Fistbump
Jan 29, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Oh, the left? Well, it gave us Stalin and Mao, you know, the two Hitlers of communism. I think we should just destroy society instead.

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019
I’m max stirner and I approve this message

A Big Fuckin Hornet
Nov 1, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
lol anarchists

dex_sda
Oct 11, 2012


AnEdgelord posted:

1000% a cop

uncop
Oct 23, 2010
I'm convinced! Quitting work tomorrow and moving back in with my mom to be a professional revolutionary.

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

cda
Jan 2, 2010

by Hand Knit
Ok, so here's my first question. BTW I am using Robert Tucker's The Marx-Engels Reader, 2nd Edition as my text. Page numbers are from there.

In the Grundrisse, Marx says "The so-called exchange between dealers and dealers is by its very organization entirely determined by production, as well as being itself a producing activity. (236 emphasis mine).

I don't get this. How is, say, the exchange between a wholesaler and a retailer "a producing activity."? What am I missing here?

Venom Snake
Feb 19, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo

cda posted:

Ok, so here's my first question. BTW I am using Robert Tucker's The Marx-Engels Reader, 2nd Edition as my text. Page numbers are from there.

In the Grundrisse, Marx says "The so-called exchange between dealers and dealers is by its very organization entirely determined by production, as well as being itself a producing activity. (236 emphasis mine).

I don't get this. How is, say, the exchange between a wholesaler and a retailer "a producing activity."? What am I missing here?

Isn't he referencing the fact that as production systems grow more complex they in turn create their own internal systems to support themselves? Like it's going to create "jobs" or "work" i guess if i have a massive steel foundry somewhere that needs to take in raw materials and make steel. People will need to do stuff like: ship in that material, work in the factory, make food for the people working in the factory, deliver the finished product, maintain the rail line and or canal that allows for the shipping to occur in the first place, etc.

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Ruzihm
Aug 11, 2010

Group up and push mid, proletariat!


I believe he's saying it's necessary for production under capitalism

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