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>People on this board are unironically Marxists

>> No.8195801

People here are supporting Bremain, of course they are marxists.

>> No.8195803

this desu

>> No.8195806

I'm not a marxist but I am a leftist-hegelian.

OP needs to read a book.

>> No.8195812

retard frogfaggot

>> No.8195821

good

>> No.8195880

>>8195806
Kys

>> No.8195882

>>8195788
What'

>> No.8195885

s up?

>> No.8195889

>>8195788
Yuri was right, and these people just aren't smart enough to see they're being duped.

>> No.8195899

Marxism, despite its historical shortcomings, is still a perfectly valid economic school of thought to be studied. You shouldn't let your apprehensions about regressive leftism and the like delude your thoughts about it.

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>>8195788
Hell yeah.

>>8195889
>Yuri
shiggy

>> No.8195907

>>8195889
>>>/pol/
>>8195899
>leftism
>regressive

>> No.8195909

>>8195899
do you know how many people have died because of marxism?

>> No.8195915
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>>8195909
Not enough.

>> No.8195923

>>8195907
>implying regressive leftism doesn't exist
>implying that people don't unreasonably disregard all leftist views because of their indignation towards regressivism, as evident from most peoples opinions on this website

You are flat out retarded. You should be agreeing with me.

>>8195909
That's what I meant by historical shortcomings.

>> No.8195924

>>8195909
I love fascist heads getting beaten in with baseball bats

>> No.8195928

they're not serious people, don't worry about them

>> No.8195930

>>8195923
leftism is never regressive you tard
>>8195928
>>>/pol/

>> No.8195934

>>8195923
>Regressive leftism
>Existing

It's literally just the new alt-right snarl buzzword.

>> No.8195935

>>8195928
The alt-right is filled with very serious people. American conservatives are very serious people.

>> No.8195943

>>8195935
>The alt-right is filled with very serious people.
didn't realise I implied that

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>>8195788
Even if you don't agree with his solutions, Marx had valuable criticisms of capitalism. Reading Marxists is essential if you want to understand how the West became a multicultural supermarket

>> No.8195948

>>8195943
So who is very serious in your mind. Implying there aren't serious people in a certain group implies there are elsewhere. Here? There are not, however. So I'm curious.

>> No.8195949

>>8195924
my grandfather escaped from communist russia. his relatives died in gulags... stalin made his parents eat feces. i can't believe you are defending such a disgusting ideology.

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

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>>8195949
Your grandfather defo deserved it.

>> No.8195953

>>8195924
>I love fascism
Secretly, every leftist thinks like you

>> No.8195954

>>8195949
I wasn't responding about communist Russia you dumbo. I was talking about European anarchists. A fair few fascists met nail bomb death as well if that's any better. I think it is.

>> No.8195961 [DELETED] 

>>8195930
>>8195934
Alright then, what would you call all of the Keep living in your fantasy land. There are literally real life solid examples of people who have displayed regressive leftism. Every pro-multicultural feminist who defends Islam is retracting their own feminist views for the sake of accommodation. How could it be a made of buzzword if it can be applied, by definition, to these such scenarios?

Keep up with the mental gymnastics, I don't care.

>> No.8195963

>>8195953
>Secretly . . . i . . . like you.

wew lad.

>> No.8195966

>>8195934
it is, but i agree that BLM protesters who cry about cultural appropriation are regressive. they seem to think culture should exist in a box, much like fascists do.

>> No.8195967

>>8195953
Killing people is not uniquely fascist. If it was, America would certainly fit fascist (more than it already does.)

>> No.8195970

>>8195961
Okay, give an example then.

>> No.8195972

>>8195954
>>8195935
>>8195967

IGNORE THE TUMBLR FEMINIST SHILL TRIPFAG

>> No.8195973

>>8195934
>tolerating homophobia, misogyny, anti-Semitism, and terrorism because you're too afraid to say "bad Muslim" is not a regression from progressive social views
Maybe you just don't know what progressive and regressive mean?

>> No.8195975

>>8195948
European Nationalism
Political Islam
Chinese state capitalism
Leftists are mostly tools of neoliberalism at this point (don't forget to vote Bremain!)

>> No.8195980
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>>8195966
>I don't support BLM

tho I do agree "cultural appropriation" is stupid, not that it's "regressive" but it's just a plain old spook.

>> No.8195982

>>8195961
>mental gymnastics
the left is all about that, which is a good thing
there's a reason why the left wing is for intellectuals

>> No.8195984

>>8195967
i hate you, but yes America is already pretty fucking fascist.

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>>8195953
>>8195963

>> No.8195986

>>8195973
Okay.

Who does this?

>> No.8195987

>>8195972
Screaming to ignore me is more annoying than me just posting. It's like screaming 'HELP HELP! STOP FALLING FOR BAIT!", nobody likes it. It doesn't help anyone. Only wieners do it. Don't be a wiener, son.

>> No.8195991

>>8195930
>>8195934
(Reposting because I fucked up the first time)

Alright then, keep living in your fantasy land. There are literally real life solid examples of people who have displayed regressive leftism. Every pro-multicultural feminist who defends Islam is retracting their own feminist views for the sake of accommodation. How could it be a made of buzzword if it can be applied, by definition, to these such scenarios?

Keep up with the mental gymnastics, I don't care.

>> No.8195995

>>8195975
UNIRONICALLY VOTING BREMAIN


how does it feel to fall for the globalist jews ruse?

>> No.8195997

>>8195991
Stop deleting your posts. Nobody is going to yell at you for making a typo, or not having perfect grammar. Cmon son.

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>>8195975
>He isn't part of the CPGB-ML who are voting leave.

>> No.8196004

>>8195995
>>8195975
i didnt mean to respond to you.. i know you were being sarcastic.

>> No.8196007

>>8195975
>European Nationalism
hahahaha
>Political Islam
hahahaha
>Chinese state capitalism
hahahaha

>> No.8196009

>>8195991
-->>8195982

>> No.8196012

too much cuckoldry in this thread. fuck all of you im gonna go read based milo tweets.

>> No.8196014

>>8195970
>>8195991

>> No.8196015

>>8195930
>>8195934
You're literally shutting your eyes and cupping your hands over your ears.

Without using buzzwords, please explain why you think it's fake. Calling the alt-right a bunch of fat virgins, even if such a statement is true, doesn't qualify.

>> No.8196016

>>8196000
an extreme minority of leftists are voting for Brexit
because they have been coopted by neoliberals
keep the memes up dude

>> No.8196017

>>8196007
>tripposting on 4chan daily
hahahahahaha

(seriously though I pity you, I hope you find a nice circle of irl friends some day)

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>>8196012

>> No.8196022

>>8196015
because I can twist words to make it true that leftism is always progressive
if you can't do this you can't call yourself an intellectual and don't deserve to be part of the left wing

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>>8196017

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>>8195788

>people on /pol/ are unironically calling people commies

W... what?

>> No.8196031

i think a marxist way of looking at things can be pretty useful sociologically, class relations etc

but economically it's retarded, LTV is simply wrong, concepts like exploitation fall flat against rigorous economic analysis

>> No.8196032

>>8196015
Because I have yet to see any validation of it beyond /pol/ going

>HA look this Muslim killed someone. And HA look at this cuck who doesn't think every last Muslim should be rounded up into camps because of it. Lol, so much for progressives.

>> No.8196034

>>8195986
Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott, and the majority of the UK Labour party
Noam Chomsky
Reza Aslan
Glenn Greenwald
Elizabeth Warren

>> No.8196038

reminder that 'regressive leftism' and 'radical Islam' are bullshit terms that obfuscate the enemy
there is only leftism and Islam, the regressive and radical elements are endemic to them

>> No.8196039

>>8196016
Most of the left are actual liberals who are barely leftists, this isn't news.

Relevent tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u52Oz-54VYw

>> No.8196040

>>8196022
yea, your progress walks into a fire, your progress falls off a cliff.

>> No.8196043

>>8196009
Are you just trying to bait? There's no way of looking at mental gymnastics and cognitive dissonance as being anything but bad in the area of politics.

>>8196014
I already gave an example, that is feminists who promote Islam. If you want the names of people in particular I regret to inform that I don't feel like pouring through a bunch of buzzfeed and vox articles for your sake, but I do distinctly remember a famous Japanese feminist activist (and marxist) who was quite the admirer of Osama bin Laden. She received a google doodle in her honor not too long ago. I forget her name though.

>> No.8196044

>>8196040
fine by me, only plebs care about the real world

>> No.8196047

If we are to profile and deport violent people from our national security, who better than men? Men commit a majority of shootings, ergo, if we are to solve problems by getting rid of it, let's send men to the sun.

If the alt-right is to argue with my logic, they are arguing against themselves.

>> No.8196048

>>8196034
How exactly?

>> No.8196050
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>>8196038

>> No.8196051

>>8196043
>as being anything but bad in the area of politics.
politics is just a game for our amusement

>> No.8196059

>>8196044
so then shut the fuck up

>> No.8196062

>>8196059
make me

>> No.8196063

>>8196043
>remember a famous Japanese feminist activist (and marxist) who was quite the admirer of Osama bin Laden.
Yes, she was also a Muslim and supported him for anti-imperialist reasons. On the count she's a Muslim I don't think that's a particularly good example of le regressive left.

Not to mention your previous "example" wasn't an example, it was you describing a situation you believe to be happening that I dispute.

>> No.8196065

>>8196047
I agree, we should deport all white men (right wing ones especially) to keep them away from the rest of society

>> No.8196067

>>8196047
IGNORE THE BAIT
IT'S JUST AN UGLY TRANNY MAD AT MEN

>> No.8196069
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>People on this board are unironically ironic

>> No.8196070

>>8196051
Politics is the set of methods by which a government chooses to make decisions for the benefit of its people. Now that I see that you're only concerned with making cutesy smartass remarks, I'm going to stop replying. Have a good day.

>> No.8196072

>>8196062
it's not my business to help idiots look less stupid, by all means, continue to dig your hole.

>> No.8196073

>>8196065
BAAAAAAAAITTTTTTTTTT

>> No.8196076

>>8196047
Kill yourself, please, do it for the collective.

>> No.8196077

>>8196063
And I say that on account of the fact that she was a Feminist Muslim, she is a perfect example of the regressive left, and that area of the regressive left in particular.

You're literally ignoring details for your own benefit.

>> No.8196078

>>8196067
I thought you said you filtered me? What's up, do you have a crush on me, or get a boner from calling me a tranny? Maybe you're the tranny.

>> No.8196081

>>8196070
everything only exists for the sole purpose of masturbating our intellects
get a grip
>>8196072
keep being mad that intellectuals won't take you seriously

>> No.8196084

>>8196076
No

>> No.8196086

>>8196078
WHEN DID I SAY THAT?
OH, YOU MADE IT UP.

UGLY TRANNY BK 2 TUMBLR

>> No.8196089

>>8196073
read between the lines

>> No.8196090

>>8196067
>>8196073
Not an argument :^)

>> No.8196091

>>8196081
How edgy. Did you read Stirner for the first time yesterday or something?

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>>8196077
>She is a feminist
>She is also a Muslim
>Therefore she is le regressive left.

I don't follow. Muslims are allowed to be feminists and vice versa.

>> No.8196096

how to filter annoying tripfags:

1.highlight the tripcode in question (in this case !!DQ4uaSYakfr)
2.Click the little triangle next to the post number
3.Click "filter selected text"
4.Under "type" select "tripcode"
5.Check the "hide" box.

enjoy your improved browsing experience

>> No.8196097

>>8196086
Well you keep screaming at people not to take my beautifully crafted bait and to filter me, I just thought the reasonable assumption with that logic is you filter me, because there wouldn't be a reason for you not to if you type in all caps encouraging it.

UGLY TRANNY BK 2 /POL/

>> No.8196101

>>8196097
CHOKE ON A DICK TRANNY
YOU'LL PROBABLY BE DEAD IN A COUPLE OF YEARS

>> No.8196105

>>8196094
The rules, guidelines, and methods of Islam that apply to women are directly in contrast to the doctrines of feminism. I don't see what you don't understand.

>> No.8196106

>>8196096
I can change my trip. Or I could post without one. Either way, you shouldn't be encouraging me to post without one again. I am doing you an honest favor.

Also, /lit/ has always had trips that annoy you, calm down.

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Why are so many leftists pseuds and charlatans? Is it because Marxism is inherently a shallow ideology reliant upon obfuscation? If somebody's a posturing jackass in the academic world, 9/10 times they're also a socially progressive leftist

>> No.8196108

>>8196091
I've been found
This whole time I've been fucking with you

>> No.8196112

>>8196101
CHOKE ON A DICK TRANNY
YOU'LL PROBABLY BE DEAD IN A COUPLE OF YEARS

>> No.8196113

>>8196096
Thanks, the thread looks a lot cleaner now

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>>8196094
>Islam
>Feminism
Pick ONE

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>>8196105
There's more than one kind of feminism and the same could be said of Christianity or (especially) Judaism.

This has never stopped Christians or Jews from being feminists.

>> No.8196118

>>8196107
>Why are so many leftists pseuds and charlatans?
Other way around actually.

>> No.8196122

>>8196118
why are so many leftists charlatans and pseuds?

>> No.8196123

>>8196114
Bro, have you ever even met a Muslim?

>> No.8196124

>>8196031
>LTV
Marx didn't invent this you know.

>> No.8196129

>>8196031
>LTV is wrong
Nice propaganda.

>> No.8196132

>>8196122
I said other way around. Why are so many fascists and reactionaries throughout the 20th and 21st centuries proved psuedos and proved frauds?

>> No.8196137

>>8196123
Unfortunately I live in an area infested with them. They've recently grown so out of control that they've started putting large bags over their women, I suspect to beat and rape them with less visibility

>> No.8196138

>>8196117
And there's the strawman. What makes you think that I don't believe reconciling feminism with Christianity and/or Judaism isn't also an example of regressivism? You've projected a false image of me to substantiate your preordained beliefs.

>> No.8196140

>>8196114
I agree, but the same applies to Christianity.

>> No.8196143

>>8196118
>>8196132
I'm on the left and you're blatantly wrong. You knew you were wrong as you were typing that.

>> No.8196144

>>8196132
hmm...

>> No.8196147

>>8196117
>There's more than one kind of feminism

Yes, and not all are progressive.

Idiot.

>> No.8196149

>>8196124

i know, he modified the version used by ricardo and smith

given that he modified it and it's often central to his thought - and it's particularly key to his economics it basically makes marxist economics wrong

it's telling that modern marxist economics tends to at the very least update it or change it or forget it entirely

>>8196129

sraffa was right

>> No.8196150

>>8196143
No I'm not.

>> No.8196151

>>8196138
I haven't. I just hoped it would help illustrate how retarded you're being to expect every religious person to be super-duper traditionalist and any other interpretation is just being a hypocrite.

>> No.8196155

>>8196147
The fuck kind of argument is this?

>> No.8196156

Islam and Christianity emphasize that women are supposed to submit to their husbands, so neither is consistent with feminism. But almost every religious person ignores most of their holy book and just draws from secular values anyway.

>> No.8196159

>>8196143
Except that's true, most fascists and reactionaries in the 20th, let fucking alone 21st century, are laughed out of wherever they are until they're left shouting conspiratorial nonsense to fellow idiots on television as right wing American radio hosts and shock jocks. This is basically undeniable.

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>>8196149
>Workers make all the stuff
>Somehow LTV isn't true.

>> No.8196164

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifoH4jy4IsE&feature=youtu.be

LET'S TRIGGER KEKS

>> No.8196166

If you don't worship the altar of pure secular altruism then you're a regressive leftist.

>> No.8196168

>>8196151
Now you're going off on a completely irrelevant tangent to make yourself look better. Want another chance?

>> No.8196170

>>8196161

workers making stuff doesn't mean marx's definition of value is at all useful as a price mechanism

>> No.8196172

>>8196161
labour doesn't effect the fertility of land yet that has an effect on its value

>> No.8196173

>>8196159
>because progressives in the media and academia don't give respect to rightists, leftists are more authentic
What kind of retarded argument is this? Stop posting, you're embarrassing yourself

>> No.8196181

>>8196155
What the fuck don't you understand? Your implication is that since there are versions of feminism that conform to religious standards, these versions aren't regressive since they are still nonetheless "feminism", which is utter bullshit. Stop being so goddamn dense.

>> No.8196182

>>8196173
Do you know how academia works? If it doesn't survive scrutiny, it's fucking wrong. Live and thrive with it or leave academia, as you are not seriously considering finding truths, you are however seriously considering finding ways to cry about how unfair life is. Hypocritically mostly.

>> No.8196188

>>8196149
LTV is right tho, the less labor involved in production the lower the cost and the thinner the profit, this is why labor intensive things like healthcare or education cost so fucking much, while capital intensive things like computer chips and dvd players get cheaper and cheaper

ignore the LTV at your own peril

>> No.8196189

don't reply to xir

>> No.8196195

>>8196189
You have zero evidence she's a tranny, why don't you stop bitching about trips. The one thing I'll agree with her on is you shits bitching about trips being more annoying than trips themselves

>> No.8196202

>>8196170
Marx uses it as a price mechanism because he points out that market exchanges cannot be an imbalanced source of surplus on the basis of use value. In Marx's analysis the surplus value comes from the labour of the worker. He made the thing, the bourgie then sells the thing at an agreed upon price, then the worker gets a pittance of that with the remainder being profit.

>

Hence, we see that behind all attempts to represent the circulation of commodities as a source of surplus-value, there lurks a quid pro quo, a mixing up of use-value and exchange-value. For instance, Condillac says: “[Condillac's Argument]” [8] We see in this passage, how Condillac not only confuses use-value with exchange-value, but in a really childish manner assumes, that in a society, in which the production of commodities is well developed, each producer produces his own means of subsistence, and throws into circulation only the excess over his own requirements.

> But commodities are not paid for twice over, once on account of their use-value, and again on account of their value. And though the use-value of a commodity is more serviceable to the buyer than to the seller, its money-form is more serviceable to the seller. Would he otherwise sell it? We might therefore just as well say that the buyer performs "strictly an act of production,” by converting stockings, for example, into money.

The so-called refutations of LTV always put forward Marx's terms very disingenuously.

>> No.8196203

>>8196189
I shouldn't be replying to a tranny, but could you please stop accusing me of being a tranny since you are a tranny.

>> No.8196205

>>8196195
xi once said the doctor who removed xir balls and sewed on xir teets wore crocs, so not only is xi a tranny but also goes for low cost boob jobs from 3rd rate surgeons with bad taste

>> No.8196210

>>8196181
>mplication is that since there are versions of feminism that conform to religious standards, these versions aren't regressive since they are still nonetheless "feminism
That wasn't my implication at all.

My implication is that there's no such fucking thing as "regressive". And this whole retardation hinges on viewing both feminists and Muslims as monolithic abstractions.

>> No.8196211

>>8196205
What the fuck

>> No.8196212

>>8196168
I'm not.

You just seem to have an extremely short term memory.

>> No.8196216

>>8196205
the xi thing only applies to people who dont consider themselves male or female

>> No.8196223

>>8196132
>Why are so many fascists and reactionaries throughout the 20th and 21st centuries proved psuedos and proved frauds?

How can they be pseuds when they don't even claim to be intellectuals, and in what way are they frauds?

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>>8196205
>Xir
Kill me pls

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DONGS

>> No.8196257

>>8196246
Nice, very nice.

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>>8196129
>>8196161
>>8196188
>>8196202
If LTV is correct why is it if I spend 1 hour sucking dick, I can only get £10 but if the bitch in pic related spends 1 hour sucking dick, she gets £100? It's the same amount of labour time so it should be the same price but it ain't.

Checkmate atheists.

>> No.8196265

>>8196258
Maybe if you worked out the labour invested in the gym would return profits in sucking dick.

>> No.8196270

>>8196182
>Do you know how academia works?
Yes, it's mostly politics, backbiting, and sucking up to as many superiors as possible
>If it doesn't survive scrutiny, it's fucking wrong
That's true in empirical sciences that rely on studies which can be consistently replicated and falsified. But in the humanities, the vast majority of what somebody is positing as the truth is simply that--a postulate. Not fact. Replication is a joke and obfuscation and defense in preferred to opening one's work to falsification.

Theories and opinions don't magically transform into objective truths because lots of social science majors sit agree that it sounds good to their ears.

Question accepted doctrine, seriously challenge everybody around you, and you've just lost your career and shot at tenure

You sound seriously gullible to forms of authority.

>> No.8196271

>>8196258
You vastly under estimate the income of gigolos and the popularity of homosexuality.

>> No.8196277

>>8196105
America is a Christian country that doesn't even stone non virgin women that attempt to marry. Disappointing desu

>> No.8196281

>>8196270
The right is more gullible to forms of authority than anyone currently. The current American right is a fucking mess to the point of centering their focus on an infamous real estate con man.

There is little to prevent the right from avoiding things like this altogether, and to adapt, they simply have not, and don't.

>> No.8196282

what does /lit/ think of zizek

>> No.8196286

>>8196282
>zizek
Pretty Cool Guy

>> No.8196292

>>8196270
Academia is infallible you fucking pleb

>> No.8196302

>>8196286
why

>> No.8196303

>>8196281
...how does that have anything to with what I said? I don't really care about how your team you vote for is better than the team you don't vote for. Next time don't respond if you're incapable of reading my post

>> No.8196307

>>8196281
>The right is more gullible to forms of authority than anyone currently
[citation needed]
>real estate con man
[citation needed]
>''i think i'm right and everyone else is wrong, so progressive, le left is the only right path, every1 else is rong and rryt wing loons''
keep posting faggot

>> No.8196321

>>8195934
But even liberals and leftists call out other liberals and leftists for being regressive.

>> No.8196322

>>8196302
he's pretty funny lol

>> No.8196323

>>8196307
How is "I think I'm right anyone else is wrong" any different from her, from the alt right?

If you want evidence of how Trump runs everything into the ground look at fucking his "promises" to restore Atlantic City. He fucked up and everyone suffered for it. Look at Trump University. You must be a fool to have Trump as your fucking candidate you rally behind. And you must be clinically dead to defend his character.

>> No.8196330

>>8195952
>edits
>of my dank meme

:^)

>> No.8196335

>>8195991
Those aren't real leftists cause they act in the interest of certain groups rather than the majority. Left wing politics is at it's core pure populism for the whole of humanity or in other words equality for everyone. Nationalism is a left wing concept but now people think it's right wing. Democracy and equal treatment under the law are left wing concepts. Individualism isn't a bad thing there's a limit due to human communities and how society functions. I'm not a socialist but I support mixed economy. I'm not a capitalist cause I know untethered free enterprise ignores the family unit and runs off of profit. I am in favor of local democratic community control of production as an alternative to both free market capitalism and the excessively bureaucratic welfare state. I consider myself a communitarian (no it's not the same as communism)

>> No.8196342

>>8196335
>I am in favor of local democratic community control of production
pure fantasy

>> No.8196345

>>8196335

>Left wing politics is at it's core pure populism for the whole of humanity or in other words equality for everyone.

That is why they will always be terrible.

>Democracy and equal treatment under the law are left wing concepts.

They're both horrible concepts. Not doing yourself any favours here.

>Individualism isn't a bad thing

Mein Gott...

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Hehehe hello guys, what's going on here ;)

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>>8196350
>Not being a Marxist out of self interest

>> No.8196362

>>8196345
literally alt-right faggot: the post

*tips fedora*

>> No.8196366

>>8196188

you think factoring the cost of labour is unique to LTV?

>>8196202

a basic understanding of marginalism adequately explains the uselessness of the concept of surplus value

people might put forward marx's ltv disingenuously but it is also a slightly slippery concept, and phrases such as socially necessary are loose and unhelpful

plenty of people sympathetic to a lot of what marx wrote(myself included) have sadly come to the understanding that it is bunk, modern economics is a rigorous discipline and does not take LTV seriously, it simply doesn't account for pricing well enough compared to marginal theories and market mechanisms

i would generally direct people who think marx might be on to something to critiques by piero sraffa, joan robinson and peter wolff - these 3 don't go over it disingenuously and critique it well

pricing mechanisms of the market don't take away from the worker, the lazy capitalist owner does not exploit labour - they put far more risk up for a business than labour does, surplus value is a fairly useless idea - especially taking into account the poor performance of collective firms in comparison and putting so much emphasis on labour ignores too many of parts of the production process

>> No.8196371

>>8196322
what about his not so left leftism

>> No.8196373

>>8196362

>How Can Anyone Disagree With My Worldview? It's 2016!: The Post

>> No.8196376

>>8196355
>yet another Marxist adopts Stirner out of an embarrassing misreading because he wants to meme too

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>>8196366
>pricing mechanisms of the market don't take away from the worker, the lazy capitalist owner does not exploit labour

>> No.8196380

>>8196342
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_self-management
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_council
>>8196345
>That is why they will always be terrible.
So how do you explain the success of the Civil Rights movement, slavery abolitionists, LGBT rights, women's rights, etc. Really seems like the right have completely lost on social issues.
>They're both horrible concepts. Not doing yourself any favours here.
So you'd really rather have the government tell you what to do. You don't want to have ANY say if they want to send to die in a war or if you should have nay rights at all? I thought conservatives don't want the government to be able to boss them around.
>Mein Gott...
le german Nazi meme, if they were so great why did the fail and there's been no nationwide movement like them since?

So when did you realize /pol/ is satire?

>> No.8196386

>>8196303
Then what kind of right do you want? The academic right mostly focuses on the economic, and demands entry to the philosophical as well. Are we talking an older right, traditionalism, of some kind? That's never going to be representative and you know why, it's because it's hostile to everything that isn't it.

Most of the right is exactly what you see in America and on campus, so what exactly is you want? I said Donald Trump, because it shows just how far the right has fallen in America, now it's going to be taken even less seriously professionally in the circles you want to be in question.

>> No.8196388

>>8196380

>Really seems like the right have completely lost on social issues.

For now. Historically illiterate Marxists don't realize that history is not linear, but cyclical. The pendulum will swing back, and we're arguably seeing the start of it - thanks to people getting tired of the 'Regressive Left', at last.

>So you'd really rather have the government tell you what to do. You don't want to have ANY say if they want to send to die in a war or if you should have nay rights at all? I thought conservatives don't want the government to be able to boss them around.

If you want to operate with extremes, be my guest.

>> No.8196389

>>8196376
>He's an egoist
>He's not some variety of radical leftist as well

Unless you are rich as fuck this is indefensible.

>> No.8196390

>>8196323
>le alt-right is one person
let me guess, you're always right?

>turned 1 million into 10 billion
How exactly is that running everything into the ground? What do you do? What have you done? Other than sit and shit post on the internet and browse Tumblr?

>You must be a fool to have Trump as your fucking candidate
>must
[citation needed]


>You must be clinically dead to defend his character
>must
Nice opinion, bro! [citation needed]

NOT A SINGLE ARGUMENT

>> No.8196394

>>8196373
>Democracy and equal treatment under the law are horrible concepts
So you don't want democracy? People shouldn't be allowed to participate in the decision making that affects their lives? You don't want the rule of law? You want the law to treat certain people with favour and discriminate against others? How is this just?

>> No.8196396

>>8196386
>Not knowing how left wing Trump is
>Thinking "conservatives" are right wing, they're classical liberals
>Not knowing how regressive "progressives" actually are.

They're both god awful anyway hun.

>> No.8196397

>>8196377

they simply don't anon, not in a way useful for building a coherent economic theory anyway

you can find examples of workers being 'exploited', but exploited in a more general sense and not the way that marx used it

>> No.8196399

>>8196380
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_self-management
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_council
This is pure fantasy. The economies of scale necessary to have the output we are used to can not be achieved by local democratic worker councils. The economy would come to a standstill if you attempted this fantasy.

>> No.8196400

>>8195788
I don't understand what self-respecting adult thinks the mechanism of society can be operated like a community garden. At the very least, have the balls to be an autocratic communist.

>> No.8196402

>>8196390
>He actually fell for Donald Trump having ten billion
oh my gosh!

>> No.8196407

>>8196394

>So you don't want democracy? People shouldn't be allowed to participate in the decision making that affects their lives?

Democracy has proven itself to be consistently terrible. The time has long since come for us to transcend it; though sadly, we are held back by idiots like you, who believe in concepts such as 'just(ice', and no doubt silly things like 'good' and 'evil' too.

>> No.8196411

>>8196390
>How exactly is that running everything into the ground?
Trump running Atlantic Cities small businesses that supported him, his investors, his shareholders, his credibility, all into the final nail on the coffin, that's all fucking academic. He generated billions of debt to go through legal loop hole to gain income.

As Donald Trump says, he's the "King of Debt". If you want America looking more like New Jersey you're a fucking idiot and I hate you, everyone hates you.

>> No.8196421

>>8196411
>King of Debt

That's hilarious. I was joking with my friend when I called him out on making a simplistic observation and he said "I'm the king of simplistic observations" that it sounded like something Trump would say.

>> No.8196422

>>8196396
>Not knowing how left wing Trump is
Trump is not a political creature, he gives a shit only about himself, and to a lesser extent his offspring. He's doing this for money, not ideology.
>Thinking "conservatives" are right wing, they're classical liberals
Hardly.
>Not knowing how regressive "progressives" actually are.
That's not a shining example of why the other team is so better. It simply is not. It's not regressive, it's outright destructive and bathes in its own stupidity and filth. At least the left doesn't end up voting a majority for Donald fucking Trump. Jesus Christ this whole election season is laughable.

>> No.8196427

>>8196402
Post proof that he doesn't? Or five billion? Whatever it is...

Again, what do you do? Other than just sit and shit post. How can you criticise the man for business failure when you literally know nothing about business? Where are your companies? Where is your profit? Why should anyone care what you have to say?

Oh! That's right! It's because you grew up on Tumblr and other indoctrination and you argue as if you believe you're right... because you genuinely believe that you are! It's not your fault though...

>>8196411
>he doesn't know how business works
>he doesn't know what capitalism is
>he wouldn't be posting on his iphone on 4chan without either of these things though

>you're a fucking idiot and I hate you, everyone hates you.
[citation needed]
Keep living in your fantasy world, my man! One day you'll get it, or maybe you won't. I don't care either way. Meanwhile, men like Trump (whether likeable or not) will continue to shape your everyday life, because they can.

>> No.8196428

>>8195889
>people just aren't smart enough to see they're being duped.
To this day I can't decide if this fact speaks for or against democracy.

>> No.8196431

>>8196407
Democracy is not perfect but it's better than any other system that came before it.

>believe in concepts such as 'just(ice', and no doubt silly things like 'good' and 'evil' too.
Ah, so you're just trolling then.

>> No.8196432

>>8195788
I've never understood this Pepe. Is there a particular reason his finger is behind his lips as if he's trying to remove it?

>> No.8196434

>>8196388
That makes no sense.
1790's French Revolution. Nationalism and Republicanism take over and BTFO monarchy
1860's slavery ends
1960's civil rights passes
1920's women gain right to vote
1970's environmental legislation passes
2015 Gays can actually marry in every state

No politician dares challenge those things. Trump isn't even challenging any of those things and he's actually left wing.
>If you want to operate with extremes, be my guest.
Top kuck

>> No.8196436

>>8196422

You're right, an openly Socialist Jewish cuckold (in the literal sense of the word) is so much better...

>> No.8196441

>>8196389
I'm not an egoist, it's just that Stirner's thought is completely contradictory to Marxism. It's fine if you want to abolish the state and have a revolution, but stop posting memes of Stirner to act smug if you haven't even read what he wrote. "spook" is not a catch-all term for examples of ideologies you don't like

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>>8196431

Hello, Churchill.

>Ah, so you're just trolling then.

Enjoy your slave morality. I can smell the ressentiment from here...

>>8196434

>No politician dares challenge those things

You're not paying attention.

>> No.8196445

>>8196422
>He's doing this for money, not ideology
[citation needed]
and even if he was, so what? obama was likely doing it to be the first black president, but i bet you still loved him though?

>It's not regressive,
LOLOLOL

> it's outright destructive and bathes in its own stupidity and filth
the left does this also, if you don't believe this to be true... you are simply a fucking fantasist.

>> No.8196447

>>8196427
>Post proof that he doesn't? Or five billion? Whatever it is...
I simply do not need to post proof Donald Trump has ten billion. If he did he wouldn't be conning people out of their retirement with Trump University. Actual rich people con everyone on a much larger scale, ie see The Koch Brothers.
>Again, what do you do? Other than just sit and shit post. How can you criticise the man for business failure when you literally know nothing about business? Where are your companies? Where is your profit? Why should anyone care what you have to say?
hahahahahaha do you know where you are

>Oh! That's right! It's because you grew up on Tumblr and other indoctrination and you argue as if you believe you're right
Tumblr, for all its dumb shittery, is like a fucking utopia compared to /pol/. I don't go there anymore though.

>> No.8196452

>>8196407
It has to be more than a coincidence that all countries with democratic governmental systems provide their people with the highest standard of living. The only exception is maybe Saudi Arabia.

>> No.8196457

>>8196427
Trump doesn't shape anyone's everyday life, he barely scrapes off trying to hide the fact he only has 550 mil.

>> No.8196459

Some people call it Marxism. I just call it Judaism.

>> No.8196467

>>8196452

And this is the problem with Marxist, and indeed most post-Enlightenment thought; everything is measured on monetary/material terms.

>> No.8196468

>>8196452
It has to be more than a coincidence that all countries with white people provide their people with the highest standard of living. The only exception is maybe Japan.

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>>8196345
>invoking zizek when you made two equally pure ideology post

>> No.8196473

>>8196467
Same goes for Quality of Life and Health tho.

>> No.8196476

>>8196447
>I simply do not need to post proof
Enough said

>hahahahahaha do you know where you are
Yes. But i'm not calling successful businessmen failures, am I? Retard.

> I don't go there anymore though.
Sure.
Also, what the fuck does /pol/ have to do with anything? I don't browse /pol/. You can keep shouting that though, as if everyone who isn't a moronic leftist ''progressive'' must be from /pol/ and or a nazi.

>>8196457
>only 550mm
Lmao, again, WHAT DO YOU DO? What are your accomplishments? Where are your businesses?
You're stupid and you think you're smart.

>> No.8196478

>>8196422
How is he doing anything for money? He's already rich as fuck and has spend millions out of pocket for his campaign. I'm not even a Trump supporter btw.
Yes what we call conservative in American today is actually classical liberalism. Why else do you thing Republicans and Libertarians are so closely allied?
What I mean to say is those regressive are actually right wing. See:>>8196335
>>8196399
Nice strawman. Keep shilling for more NEETbux and maybe your corporate master will give you a raise. I'm sure the wealth will trickle down any day now.

>> No.8196484

>>8196473

Those are still material concerns.

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>>8196478
>How is he doing anything for money? He's already rich as fuck
If he had ten billion why isn't he self funding his campaign harder like anyone would? If he has ten billion, and seriously wants to become president, why isn't he putting it all to good use?

This is a publicity stunt, and you all fell for it, because you are stupid. You are part of a circus act.

>> No.8196494

>>8196476
>Also, what the fuck does /pol/ have to do with anything? I don't browse /pol/.
You'd fit right in.
>You can keep shouting that though
Ok.
>as if everyone who isn't a moronic leftist ''progressive'' must be from /pol/ and or a nazi.
I never said that, I just am correctly assuming you aren't a very intelligent person to fall for all of this.

>> No.8196499

>>8196478
>Why else do you thing Republicans and Libertarians are so closely allied?
Follow the comfortable money

>> No.8196500

>>8196468
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index#Past_top_countries
>What is Singapore?
>What is Macau?
>What is Hong Kong?
>What is South Korea?
>What is Taiwan?
>What is Brunei?
I only stopped coz I reached Saudi Arabia

>> No.8196508

>>8196467
The material is the only real, retard.

>> No.8196510

>>8196488
Trump has spent less than any other major candidate and won the GOP primaries. Jeb Bush was spending ridiculous amounts and was stuck at 3% support.
>why isn't he spending he self funding his campaign harder
He doesn't need to spend like crazy to win. He's practically living proof that a lot of money isn't needed to gain people's support. It's his charisma and playing the media like a fiddle that are giving him free publicity.

>> No.8196528

>>8196508

I think your Dunce hat is a little too tight.

>> No.8196531

>>8196510
>Trump has spent less than any other major candidate and won the GOP primaries.
Romney won the GOP primaries. Primaries do not equate general victory. They mean how gulible your base can be, nothing more.
>Jeb Bush was spending ridiculous amounts and was stuck at 3% support.

The problem here isn't about spending, it's about strategy. Trump currently is getting gang banged on all sides of the aisle, every bit of his plump orange ass is being filled with the collective cummies of the Government, the media, the business world, and the international world.

If any time was a good time to fire out ads in states to minimize loss from getting fucked so hard, it would be now. But he's not doing that. If he actually believes he can win based on his primary strategy after every new scandal comes out, he's wrong. Now, this could all change, but right now Trump is shedding potential voters fast and he just doesn't seem to give a fuck, but reports from inside say the entire campaign staff is panicking.

The month of June alone has cost Trump millions of potential voters, I don't think he can survive this non stop gang bang until November arrives.

And he's manipulated people in the past, he knows this. I am positive this was just a publicity stunt gone out of control. After he announced running for president from Trump tower, he moved down on his own fucking elevator giving a thumbs up to the press and released a book for fucks sakes, how much more does the right need.

Anyways, he's at a net loss now, so his plan, if it is a plan, is not working anymore. He's funneling campaign cash into his own companies like mad, with no care if the press finds out.

>> No.8196535

>>8196528
Keep being spooked

>> No.8196541

Jeb should have been the Republican candidate desu senpai

>> No.8196543

>>8196500
Hong Kong is kind of an odd duck as a political entity. I wouldn't count it in any sort of list. Although I wasn't aware of those others. I thought South Korea was democratic.

>> No.8196568

>>8196531
>Romney won the GOP primaries
And he lost and it was a wake up call for the GOP
>Primaries do not equate general victory.
I know how elections work but that's not what we're talking about
>They mean how gulible your base can be, nothing more.
That applies to every party since elections have become nothing but popularity contests. This is common knowledge and it's why there's so many independent voters these day such as myself.
>The problem here isn't about spending, it's about strategy.
That' exactly what I'm saying when I say he hasn't spent a whole lot but kept winning.
>Trump currently is getting gang banged on all sides of the aisle
He already has been for whole year now and it hasn't stopped him so far. I don't know or care if he wins or loses the general election but this country will suffer under Clinton who is just Obama 2.0.

>> No.8196570

>>8196541

Typical leftie, backing losers.

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>>8196541

>> No.8196588

I was ironically a marxist lately for an essay I wrote for a summer class. Mostly just thought it would make the essay more fun and challenging though.

>> No.8196592

>>8196568
>And he lost and it was a wake up call for the GOP

Going in the opposite direction, is not a certifiable victory. It is another way to alienate voters and lose. The GOP is a mess, has been since George Bush jr, this won't save it. It will kill it.

>That applies to every party since elections have become nothing but popularity contests.
That's my point.

>That' exactly what I'm saying when I say he hasn't spent a whole lot but kept winning.
And I'm saying the primaries are getting your base to vote for you, not the entire nation. Then it changes. Donald Trump cannot rely on his primary voters only for general election victory, that's losing. Right now he's even shedding his primary voters.

>He already has been for whole year now and it hasn't stopped him so far.

Because those were the primaries.

>I don't know or care if he wins or loses the general election but this country will suffer under Clinton who is just Obama 2.0.

And it would also suffer under Trump. Nobody wins this election.

>> No.8196622

>>8195788
homines in tabula hac sine deridente Marxī sunt.

>> No.8196625

>>8195909
Less than capitalism, surely, if we are playing the ideologies kill people game

>> No.8196698

>>8196484
Which is the only thing a government ought to be in charge of.

>> No.8196796

>>8196622
Dude, shut up

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Unrepentant

>> No.8196894

>>8196891

I can't imagine wasting that much time.

To paraphrase Schopenhauer; read good books, for life is short. Everyone ITT, don't make the mistake of this retard.

>> No.8196900

>>8196894
If I wanted to read an awful book I'd give Evola a spin

>> No.8196902

>all these anti-intellectuals
>all these mediocre pseudo-intellectuals

Dignity seems to be something that people on this board do not know. Stop embarrassing yourself like this

>> No.8196922

>>8196031
t. someone who has read classical political economy, marx, keynes or anything that isnt freakonomics

>> No.8196928

>>8196039
this desu senpai. liberals are not leftists!

>> No.8196933

>>8195788
>there are anti-Marxists on /lit/, in THIS thread, who don't have an understanding of Marxism

Talk about ideology!

>> No.8196939

>>8196170
marx isn't trying to create a price mechanism. idiot

>> No.8196943

>>8196172
>plowing and irrigation have no effect on the fertility of land

>> No.8196951

>>8196031
>concepts like exploitation fall flat against rigorous economic analysis

>> No.8196954

>>8196366
>socially necessary are loose and unhelpful

and marginal utility is a rock solid theory?

totally circular desu

>> No.8196964

>>8195909

None. Many have been killed because of state planning, however.

>> No.8196965

>>8196441
he clearly advocates for appropriation of private property. what is a union of egoists but communism stripped of its spooks?

>> No.8196972

>>8196922
hasn't. fuck!

>> No.8196975

>>8196900

Evola's works are good, though.

>> No.8196978

>>8196397
>spend your life working to make someone else rich
>work place dictatorship
>not explotation

>> No.8197041

>>8195806
ayyyyy

>> No.8197052

>>8196891
Marx does not justify reading so many books on him.
Honestly, just Das Kapital and maybe a biography ought to be enough to thuroughly understand him.

>> No.8197079

Marx made a lot of good critiques of modern society, he is as important a figure to the modern world as Plato, Nietzsche, or Freud.

I am a Marxist Conservative honestly, I am not a lesser capitalist but a better one for understanding its weaknesses as Marx so well outlined in Kapital.

>> No.8197119

>>8197079
How would you fix capitalism?

>> No.8197133

>>8196478
>Keep shilling for more NEETbux and maybe your corporate master will give you a raise. I'm sure the wealth will trickle down any day now.
Nice false dichotomy.

The only two options aren't Neoliberal, trickle down economics vs. workers councils/syndicates. You can have a proper mixed economy with a strong welfare state, public services and wage growth with proper government intervention in to the market.

>> No.8197139

>>8196625
Savages aren't people

>> No.8197141

>>8197079
the entire Marxist perspective of opposing classes of society has made a fucking mess of sociology. It isn't constructive it creates conflict.

>> No.8197146

>>8197133
>unironically social democrat

>> No.8197152

>>8197141
How shelteted do you have to be.

>> No.8197157

>>8197152
Address the point, dividing people into literally opposing classes is harmful. You can address inequality without making into a fucking football match

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>>8197146
>Not being socdem/market socialist

REMOVE NAZI

REMOVE MARXIST

REMOVE NECKBEARD MONARCHISTS

>> No.8197165

>>8197157
Marxist don't divide people they describe the divisions that exist.

>> No.8197166

>>8197157
conflict is the nature of man, without a force to fight against our teeth grow dull, our muscles grow slack, our brains go to mush and our spines turn to jelly.

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>>8197146
You can mock social democracy all you want but the most prosperous time in economic history was the 30 years post 2nd World War when policies akin to social democracy were pursued.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%E2%80%93World_War_II_economic_expansion

>> No.8197171

>>8197166
Yea these meaningless anecdotes may sound cool in your mind but they prove nothing.

>> No.8197176

>>8197165
They zero in on a few divisions and ignore reality's much more complex and less homogeneous power structures.

>> No.8197178

>>8197168
If you're going to run a capitalist market economy it needs to be Keynesian. Chicago school is literally ruining the world.

>> No.8197179

>>8197171
>they prove nothing
Kinda like you.
>>8197168
Because they exploited poor nations.

>> No.8197185

>>8197171
that truth is evident in every facet of life, that you'd deny it to win this argument is only evidence in favor of my point.

>> No.8197188

>>8197166
You can simply create things and deal with problems and not be a ridiculous child.

>> No.8197190

>>8197176
So what do you think we should do? Ask the capitalists kindly not to exploit us?

>> No.8197193

>>8197178
I agree with you.
>>8197179
>Because they exploited poor nations.
There's far more exploitation of poor nations today then there was during the post-war expansion. Look at what the World Bank/IMF do and despite that Western economies are growing slower.

>> No.8197200

>>8197185
What truth? An anecdote is not truth.

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What are some good introductions to economic theory that assumes I'm shit at math?

>> No.8197209

>>8197190
Accept that things are unfair, thank the capitalists and workers for the wealth they produce, and attempt to implement laws to redistribute the wealth.
Or whatever, have another revolution, that's turned out so well in the past.

>> No.8197210

>>8197193
>There's far more exploitation of poor nations today
Well if it's not AS imperialist.

>> No.8197217

>>8197079
>understanding its weaknesses as Marx so well outlined in Kapital
>inherent contradictions and the recurring crises of its death agony are "weaknesses"

>>8197157
>dividing people into literally opposing classes is harmful
This division is not done by ideas and academics but is a fact of material reality. Marx did not divide people into classes any more than physicists created the atom.

>>8197176
>ignore reality's much more complex and less homogeneous power structures
M8 wut. These power structures emerge entirely in service to class rule and material self-interest. Marxist critique is literally the best and only satisfactory way of describing them. It's like someone arguing evolution doesn't real because natural selection is "too simple a process" to explain such complex outcomes.

>> No.8197224

>>8197209
>Accept that things are unfair, thank the capitalists
And you think the capitalists will stop their class warfare?

>> No.8197230

>>8197210
>Well if it's not AS imperialist.
Literally more imperialist.

The developing nations grew at relatively fast rates before the onset of Neoliberalism in them late 70s which has sent them back decades. It's simply false to say that imperialism in the post-war period was the reason for economic success in developed nations. It was due to internal policy.

>> No.8197255

>>8197052
You probably think Capital is just an economic work don't you?

The Marx problematic is the problematic of bourgeois society. I don't think it's the completion of philosophy ala early Lukacs but the field it opens is the one on which a self-understanding of bourgeois society is possible.

It's not a philosophy of history cum Hegel with the proletariat standing in for Geist but it's analogous in form and intensivity/extensivity.

>> No.8197267

>>8197133
>he thinks you can get these things without class struggle or the threat of revolution.

>> No.8197275

>>8197168
because of the destruction brought about by ww2. Death, the greatest of all keynesians, ruled the world once more.

>> No.8197280

wow looks like leftists are getting blown the fuck out. sad!

>> No.8197290

>>8197209
>thank the capitalists and workers for the wealth they produce
That's precisely it. Capitalists do not produce wealth. The position of "private property owner" is entirely a superfluous one.

>implement laws to redistribute the wealth
Certainly wealth redistribution occurs in every advanced capitalist state as a pressure valve. It is a clear tactic of class rule. To avoid a sort of tragedy of the commons, bourgeois interests are collectivized and self-regulated at the level of their client government.
This process is basic stuff.
Literally the cause of mass colonialism and major wars over materials and markets. Private wars (a la drug cartel) are simply inefficient and outcompeted/selected against by those of massed capital in the form of the "legitimate" bourgeois state.

>>8197255
This. Marxist critique is a philosophy in the same sense that general relativity and quantum mechanics are philosophies.

>> No.8197293

Daily reminder every government is inherently illegitimate, and taxation is theft.
Have a good one, lads!

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8197307

>>8197293
welcome to the vanguard comrade

>In North Korea, April 1st is commemorated as “Tax Abolition Day.” Ever since the law, “On Completely Abolishing Taxes,” was ratified through the Supreme People's Assembly on March 21, 1974, North Korea has claimed both within and without to be the only country in the world that does not collect taxes.

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8197313

>>8197293
Do you support me being shot?

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8197314

>>8197293
>theft from the richies
>bad

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>>8197280
Begone to your meme board and return when you can contribute something beyond reddit tier "humor"

>> No.8197320

>>8197307
people marching in unison is a telltale sign of a successful country

>> No.8197323

>>8197307
Now that's some funky shit, I'm gonna have to look into that one.

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8197324

>>8197293
If taxation is theft then property is also theft you stupid ancuck.

>> No.8197330

lit falls for bait the most

>> No.8197333

>>8197313
I dunno, I wouldn't care if you shot yourself m8, it's your business.

>> No.8197338

>>8197316
looks like a young, politically savvy chap to me

>> No.8197340

>>8197330
"falls" implies /lit/ doesn't recognize it's bait in the first place

>> No.8197341

>>8197324
scarcity etc
come and get it lad
physical removal incoming

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>>8197307
>April 1st
It looks like Kim Dong Poon was playing an April Fools joke.

>> No.8197348

>>8197307
>April 1st

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8197350

>>8197341
Kid just pay the one tax ffs

>> No.8197352

>>8197346
DELETE THIS

>> No.8197353

>>8197203
M8, economy math is easy mode.

>> No.8197360

>>8197350
dicks have no shoulders
no such thing as just the tip

>> No.8197370

Anarchist capitalists want a position of power no better than the state, the economy, ergo, they are not true anarchists. They fail to see the power that organized economy has as any different than a kind of state.

It'd be easier to call them gang rights activists or the mafia.

>> No.8197379

>>8197370
They're neofeudalists. Most neoreactionaries began as minarchists and ancaps actually.

>> No.8197382

>>8197370
>free trade is the same as coercion
aight

>> No.8197384

>>8197382
It is.

>> No.8197398

>>8197384
it's no wonder you people are constantly the cause of famine and death

good luck stopping me from engaging in free trade, granddad

>> No.8197408

>>8197293
taxation is not theft, it's extortion, sometimes direct robbery; hm, speaking of robbery, in "a ticket to tranai" the government of utopia gathered taxes literally by robbing people on the streets, afaik nobody wrote a story where the government would collect taxes by silently stealing them

>>8197307
>April 1st is commemorated as “Tax Abolition Day.” Ever since the law, “On Completely Abolishing Taxes,” was ratified through the Supreme People's Assembly on March 21, 1974, North Korea has claimed both within and without to be the only country in the world that does not collect taxes.
>April 1st

that's pretty symbolic

i googled and it seems the soviet union had income tax, albeit i think they technically could abolish it, when all the business is controlled by the state the state can ignore the income tax if they want simply by adjusting the salaries, people wouldn't even see the difference (people didn't pay it themselves, the employer paid it from their salaries as a tax agent); also they probably had some kind of value added tax, at least for some time

>> No.8197409

>>8196500
Bar South Korea, freedoms are pretty enjoyable. South Korea has a horrible work culture though.

>> No.8197413

>>8197255
>You probably think Capital is just an economic work don't you?
No. I just think him and Engels are generally overhyped as some kind of authorities and this leads to an extenuation of the arguments made.
And people who are especially idealistic about it, tend to apply unrelated arguments. (Like Lacanianism.)

Socialist thought ought to stop getting so hung up on Marxism and move the fuck on. Contemporary anarchism for instance opens up a huge fucking playing field, which most leftists seem uninterested to intellectually explore. The only more or less interesting shit is post-left anarchism. Other than that it is all boring communist shit and literally nothing ever going into téchne in any meaningful way.

Right now social democrats are the only ones who seem invested in adapting to what is actually happening in the world.

>> No.8197416

>>8197316
>the face of /pol/

>> No.8197424

>>8197398
it's no wonder you people are constantly the cause of famine and death

good luck stopping me from engaging in actual free existence, granddad

>> No.8197433

>>8197424
as long as you don't invade my property, laddie
in that case you wouldn't even experience non-free existence, or any existence at all :^)

>> No.8197442

>>8197290
>That's precisely it. Capitalists do not produce wealth. The position of "private property owner" is entirely a superfluous one.
It is incredibly stupid to think that the people organizing the production of wealth have no role in its production. I suppose we should fire movie directors as well

>> No.8197444

>>8197433
Property might as well be state. You are a hypocrite.

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8197445

>>8197416
nah
if so, this would be the face of /lit/

>> No.8197448

>>8197293
>governments are inherently illegitimate
>taxation is theft
I... Wha...
I'm not the only one who sees this, am I?

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8197452

>>8197445
No

This is the face of lit

>> No.8197457

>>8197452
No that's the face of retarded memeposters who are as ashamed of posting about literature as they are about posting a picture of themselves.

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8197460

>>8197452
Wrong again

THIS IS!

>> No.8197461

>>8197457
No it's the face of lit

>> No.8197462

>>8197442
Purchasing shares hardly makes you an active agent in the productive process. Consumers themselves can just as easily direct societies resources better than a professional investor class who profits from laying people off and creating unemployment and inflating their asset prices.

>> No.8197466

>>8197457
when do they start posting about literature?

>> No.8197469

fag

>> No.8197471

>>8197444
state denies property
you're not even a hypocrite, you're just deluded
anarchism is not what you actually want or believe in

it's a good thing your beliefs are irrelevant to my property

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>>8197445
Nah, that would be /fa/.
This is /lit/.

>> No.8197480

>>8197462
>a professional investor class who profits from laying people off and creating unemployment
I'm sure countries without investment have no unemployment issues.

>> No.8197484

>>8197471
State is property, it's the stripping of humans of dignity besides value and worth. Property and economy is no better. It's still power. It's just a shitty state that swears it's not.

>> No.8197488

>>8197471
>he thinks property is real
>and on top of that has any inherent value

This is the kind of backwardness one might expect from an American, I presume?

>> No.8197491

>>8197462
if you guys ever end up doing something productive let me know, ill stick with actually existing things that are proven to work for the moment

>> No.8197497

>>8197484
>he thinks the solution to people being spooked about stuff like "properties" or "governments" being real things is to stop using these or similar social tools

>> No.8197499

>>8197497
Yes, burn it all down.

>> No.8197502

>>8197445
triggered /pol/cuck detected

>> No.8197505

>>8197484
>it's the stripping of humans of dignity besides value and worth
More like the stripping away of value and worth themselves.
I don't care about your dignity, don't fuck with me and I won't fuck with you. That's it.

>> No.8197514

>>8197499
None of these things are inherently evil.
If you want to see what happens when you fail to use available tools like these after a successful shift in pradigm, just look to most post-colognial African states.
The difference being that we actually have the know-how to make something better of it.
It's just a waste, otherwise.

>> No.8197515

>>8197505
Blind commerce surely won't end in exploitation of all of us. I'll take your word on it cheeto beard.

>> No.8197516

>>8197488
what's real?
>inherent value
that's some socialist shit, I don't touch it with a 10 foot pole senpai
value is subject to constant change

>> No.8197521

>>8197515
Blind commerce doesn't last long in a free market.
People have demands.

Don't take my word for it boi just live it.

>> No.8197532

>>8197521
Free market without a state is a car without a driver, it just depends if you want to get hit by the car with or without the driver in it. I'd rather not get hit by a car.

>> No.8197544

>>8197532
At least you didn't make a food analogy.

Free market without a state is a car without a driver.
It doesn't need one because tech allows it to drive by itself without causing accidents

didya like that one? I know you did

>> No.8197560

>>8197516
You don't own shit. It's a societal delusion, propagated by greed.
Exclusivity of usage is pointless in a society where téchne allows abundance.

>value is subject to constant change
Value is the decision of how much freedom you are willing to pay for having other people let you exclusively use something.

>> No.8197569

>>8197560
It's a societal construct, if that's what you mean.
It's also essential for the avoidance of violence.
>Exclusivity of usage is pointless in a society where téchne allows abundance.
It would be. We don't have that kind of abundance though, so RIP.

>Value is the decision of how much freedom you are willing to pay for having other people let you exclusively use something
If you wish to substitute value for the constant initiation of violence, be my guest.
You won't last very long though.

>> No.8199022

>>8196951
Shut up, you don't know what Marx's version of exploitation meant economically.
I dare you to explain chapter 1 of Capital volume 1 to me, the idea that two goods with the same exchange value must have some other common value that causes this is in itself retarded. I hope someone had pushed Marx to take a course in Real Analysis, maybe then he could have said something remotely sensible about the economy's mechanics.

>>8196484
Self reported happiness levels are good enough for me and no I do not believe people are subtly misguided about how happy they are when then say they are on, say, the 7th step of Cantril's ladder scale and no I don't think the data was purposely manipulated by bourgeois economists.

>>8196922
You're trolling? There is a reason noone bothers with the LTV in the mainstream since Ricardo

>>8197353
You're an undergrad aren't you?

>>8197203
I would rec Max actually, mainstream econ will likely be too tough so give up on that, with Marx on the other hand polemic plays a much more important role, you'll be shunned by most people but you'll have enough contrarion leftists to give you company.

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>>8199022
Of course that's your contention. You're a first year grad student. You just got finished some Marxian historian, Pete Garrison prob’ly, you’re gonna be convinced of that until next month when you get to James Lemon, then you’re gonna be talkin’ about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist back in 1740. That's gonna last until next year, you’re gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood, talkin’ about you know, the Pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization...
Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth..." You got that from Vickers. "Work in Essex County," Page 98, right? Yeah I read that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us- you have any thoughts of- of your own on this matter? Or do- is that your thing, you come into a bar, you read some obscure passage and then you pretend- you pawn it off as your own- your own idea just to impress some girls? Embarrass my friend?
Will: See the sad thing about a guy like you, is in about 50 years you’re gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you’re gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One, don't do that. And two, you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fuckin’ education you coulda' got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the Public Library

>> No.8199044

>>8196258
9/10 ingenius refutation of the LTV.

Also,
>>8196149
>it's telling that modern marxist economics tends to at the very least update it or change it or forget it entirely
This is a very important point to note for prospective Marxists or other folks interested in econ, most deffenders of LTV are armchair Marxists.

>> No.8199049

>>8196954
Other poster here modern econ falls short many times, really I have no clue how economics have a job right now. It ought to get better with time though.

Marginalism might be incorrect in parts but LTV is fundamentally absurd.