/lit/ - Literature

>>14468700
Fuck off kike, nobody cares about your shitty local used bookstore.

why does mr. raygun have two thyroids?

>>14468711
Because he's a capitalist and can afford it.

>>14468700
>go to local left/anarchist book store
Uh huh, and you did that despite knowing you wouldn't like it. How masochistic.

All the local books stores here write the price with a pencil onto the first page. I also don't understand the point of going to a bookstore like this, if you know they are advertising to a different audience than you.

>>14468700
looks like a cool place to me desuwu

Clicked your link and they're suggesting 3 hours per week. Not really a bad idea to read some nicher lit and associate with some womenonce a week

>>14468700
>People who hate capitalism choose to open a book store
>Refuse to cater to an audience that pays for things
>Don't pay people, just beg for people to waste their time helping out because wokeness
kek

>>14468700
>Left Bank is collectively owned and operated by its workers, and has been since its inception. As an anarchist collective, Left Bank has no bosses or managers. Decisions are made in bi-monthly collective meetings based on a consensus process. Despite all the changes over the years, Left Bank Books continues to thrive at our Pike Place Market storefront thanks to Seattle's radical community and the many folks who visit us from out of town. See you next time you're in the neighborhood!

>>14468740
>>14468758
I actually like leftest theory.

I don't like that they were selling a broken down book for the same price as new. They didn't write it, they didn't print it, they didn't ship it, they just have it use shelve space. They can fuck off with charging extra for it.

>>14468794
Yeah it functions on the level of cover for a secret society, why would you want to increase the number of people around?
Way to show how much of a brainlet normalfag you are. Where do they find you cunts?

>>14468800
>In order to get essential financial tasks done Left Bank operates as a two-tiered collective, and as such there is an imposed hierarchy in our working relationships. This system is imperfect but has served to keep the front doors open as a business for the last forty years or so.

>>14468802
Then don't buy it.

>>14468800
>Decisions are made in bi-monthly collective meetings based on a consensus process
What exactly did they mean by this? Honestly Im curious

>>14468840
Does it seem like I did? Or are you telling me that buying a book like that isn't majorly cucked?

>>14468866
Jesus, you are a whiney little bitch
>I saw something and I didn't like the price! Wah!

>>14468866
It seems like you like to shit on things for no reason. You went to a business and found out they did not cater to you. Now you wanna write a fucking anonymous yelp review. Combined with your unironic use of the word cucked, I can assure you the world would be better off without your takes and posts.

>>14468884
I don't get your game. Does it seem like I'm really mad? I'll just find the book for cheaper online if I want it. I'm just having a good laugh at these guys.

>>14468776
They're exploiting the workers by not paying them, while the owners reap a profit on the books. They also have quarters there, presumably multiple floors, which could be used to house them. What some of the workers should do is organize and stage a hostile takeover of the bookshop, and force the owners to remunerate them, starting with their immediate indentureship and liquidation of all their assets. Proletariat also does not usually live in deep urban areas any more due to gentrification, so we can assume 50% of the workforce will be co-conspirators, and were there just for sake of hobby. They are actually counterrevolutionaries and will be treated as such. The bookshop idea is not a wise enterprise anyways, too petite-bourgeois. It would be better off utilized toward something else, such as housing. Revolutionary literature was always distributed for free with the aid of a printer or press, making profit-driven modes and storefronts superfluous or even harmful. I also searched the owners, and they can afford Oliver Peoples glasses, so they are definitely going up against the wall after the revolution.

>>14468927
sure thing brah.

>>14468927
>Does it seem like I'm really mad?
Now that you've asked that yeah. I just said you're whining, which you were.
>I'm just having a good laugh at these guys.
Doesn't seem like it.

>>14468927
>leftist bookshop
>selling shit for $20 a book
>doesn't pay their workers
This should make you and anyone with half a brain mad.

>>14468941
>>14468944
Seems like you guys are just irredeemably autistic and couldn't read the subtleties of the situation. I'm gonna stop replying to you.

>>14468708
Fpbp

>>14468930
dangerously based

>>14468850
>https://www.leftbankbooks.com/volunteer.php
It means that who sucks the most cocks gets the most money.

>>14468930
Fucking based

>>14468976
lmao, imagined getting bullied off your own thread

>>14468850
It means it's a big scam.

Lol what the hell, people in this thread butthurt that OP didnt like a shop he visited. Noooo you’re not allowed to express your subjective feelings on an anonymous forum!! Are the shopkeepers posting here or something?

>>14469107
Please don't give them attention. This is a Neocon/Maoist discussion thread.

>>14469107
They will be dealt with after the revolution, severely.

I used to fly a sign outside for heroin money when I was a train hopper

>>14468991
I wasn't even trying to bully the guy.

>>14469107
you sound like OP is your pimp

>>14469107
>Are the shopkeepers posting here or something?
Yeah, that's probably it. Seems like a not crazy conclusion.

>>14469325
You were defending the bookstore which is even worse.

>>14469383
Was I? Where did I do that?

>>14469383
I'd take the bookstore over OP any day. At least the bookstore won't annoy me.

>>14469388
My mistake.

>>14469407
OP is just misguided. The people at the bookstores are deliberately fucking over their workers.

>>14469419
i dunno if you can fuck over volunteers

>>14468930
Based af. Get em commies.

>>14468700
>Anarchist you say?

Did they have any books on cooking?

>>14469448
The same way you can fuck over someone "consensually" trading their labor for money.

>>14468700
Oh, yes... an anarchist system... stupidly smart, yes! just one problem: how are they gonna organize the wooden iron?

>>14468930
Very based

>>14468700
>Bourgie wants a sticker on his book
>Clearly has never been to a used book store before

>>14469742
only one of those is actually consensual
since there are literally no consequences for not volunteering

>said trees cause more pollution than cars
>fiscal conservative who set a record for unprecedented debt building
>huge fucking racist
>switched from democrat to republican at the same time the federal government started helping poor black people
>slept 16 hours a day
>that fucking 1992 RNC speech where he attributed a William J. H. Boetcker quote to Abraham Lincoln on national tv
How was this an actual human being?

>>14470010
>>slept 16 hours a day
Nothing wrong with this. Only people who sleep all the time and are constantly tired are intelligent.

>>14470010
>>huge fucking racist
wtf I love Reagan now

>>14468700
>leftist
>only six people, practical owners, get paid
>twenty idiots work for free
This REAKS of Jewry lmao

>>14470462
That image is revolting.

>>14470466
*arousing

>>14470462
>It’s Jewish magic keeping this place open!
How about some critique of REI now.
The place has to buy books to put on shelves still.

>>14468930
yea ive never understood these large groups trying to make large profits off these. i got conquest of bread, mutual aid, and god and the state for 2$ each off a guy who sold them at cost. on ak press it would be 30$

>>14468930

I don't mind if you're a commie or just know the ideology well, your post is pretty based

>>14470485
>can't read
>posts on /lit/ anyway
Classic Butterfly idiocy. I was referring to the way that the practical bourgeoisie in this scenario retain all of the fruits of the bookstore proletariat's labor. Despite being a "leftist" bookstore, its model of employment is a hyperbolic representation of leftist views on capitalism, and its perceived flaws. This has nothing to do with the feasibility of their system, a subject on which I have made no comment. Also, you must be unbelievably stupid to presume that other people believe in "Jewish magic," when in reality you are merely incapable of understanding that the economic and political influence of Jews is nuanced when an average man expresses this influence in simple, plain English. Your inability to intuit is not only strange for a a creature which I'm told has a vagina, but also means that you will never be able to discuss great literature on the level that you aspire to. Please stop shitting up the board. 2/10 bait.

>>14470010
>>said trees cause more pollution than cars
>>fiscal conservative who set a record for unprecedented debt building
>>huge fucking racist
>>switched from democrat to republican at the same time the federal government started helping poor black people
>>slept 16 hours a day
>>that fucking 1992 RNC speech where he attributed a William J. H. Boetcker quote to Abraham Lincoln on national tv
>How was this an actual human being?

>>14468700
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

>>14468711
"Impeach the president
I'm pulling out my ray gun"- Chuck D

>>14470644
Chuck is a on a complete downward trajectory in all ways. All of my heroes are dead. It's liberating.

>>14470618
kek

>>14470727
Sick shirt dude!

>>14470877
cringe

>>14470485
no more likely some capitalistic boomer worth millions exploiting some dumb kids to work in his shop for free

>>14468700
Ummm... Marx was very problematic sweetie. Haven't you heard he's cancelled?

>>14470010
You forgot no fault divorce and largest illegals amnesty ever.

>Benefits of Volunteering
>bus fare
ok, that's a pretty good bit

>>14471021
Peddling leftist literature to the tourists come to see the fish tossers and the first Starbucks

>>14472211
Probably just sold out. Like Battletoads

>>14472211
This. He was not an egalitarian.

>>14472274
Not really.

>>14473619
Clearly the business model works fine. The interns can get discounts and after a while join the paid staff if they like.

I know there are at least some good left anarchists out there but I've never seen/met any in person despite being in heavy left area
It's shitty marxists, leninists, etc
Can't even find a Bakuninchad

>>14473669
>Clearly the business model works fine
Delusional and cope. Same circular argument for capitalism.

>>14473669
The argument was never about the commercial viability of the business model, brain dead butterfly.

>>14473669
why even reply to them at this point?

The idea of people who call themselves "revolutionaries" visiting their favorite gay little book store looking for more things they can rage about on Twitter is hilarious idk why

>>14473811
They’d certainly do better without capitalism of course. I’m saying collectively run businesses work fine. For nearly fifty years they’ve been there.

>>14473832
It’s a call to come by and troll the place, isn’t it?

>>14473874
Says the snowflake from /pol/

>>14468700
>do a job and get paid for it
>oppression

>do a job and don't get paid for it
>fighting oppression

why are l*ftoids like this?

>>14474262
You don’t know jackshit about it. Need a book rec?

>>14474262
Trustfund leftists.

>>14474729
It's champagne socialist, don't invent your own faggier versions of already extent slurs.

What are they supposed to do?
Get a hierarchical job?

>>14474762
are you actually expecting their honest engagement?

>>14468930
Based commie. You'll be thrown out of the helicopter last.

>>14468700
Oh good you leave near me. Where shouldI run you over with my truck?

>>14470727
Jesus Christ Chuck.
S.