#commodity fetishism

[blorbocedes]

his bag is unzipped and his luggage is louis vuitton

sent to me by: @cuthechicane

[gothicseverance]

For Marx the self under capitalism ceases to have an ontological reality of its own, instead it substitutes within itself a series of object-attachments which replace any real (or otherwise economically non-motivated) sense of autonomy.

—Dickens' Ghosts

[ellisdee161]

Eat Shit Die

[valenciamidknight]

“Distraction”, July 2024.

[teachanarchy]

How Cars (2006) Explains the Collapse of American Society

[codswallopia]

379 days until submission

9am-5pm Karl Marx

5pm-12am Carl Barks

no changes to report some 300 years onwards

[gothicseverance]

In Marx’s account of commodity fetishism in Capital (1867), objects become ‘alive’ with the labour which produced them, whilst individuals become increasingly objectified through labour.

—Dickens’ Ghosts

Art by @sketchupnfries 🖤

[edwad]

You're probably right on the Wallace Shawn thing but it's provocative...... it gets the people going

it gets the people going on the wrong foot. i'm sure this sounds a bit too over the top, but i've been expressing my frustration with the '2 steps sideways 1 step back' approach to socialism for a long time. people defend oversimplified memes on these grounds too, as if somehow we're weaponizing unarticulated and easy-to-dismiss crudifications of positions as a means of bringing people on board, but in the best case scenario we're expecting everyone to unlearn these things and become incredibly frustrated in the process. this was definitely my experience with trying to navigate these things about a decade ago.

personally i am in favor of saying what we mean and being creative in our approach to these things so that we can get our points across without distorting them. in this particular case, there's nothing in the piece more provocative than the mention of a nude woman posing for a photographer. it's politically null otherwise. what else am i supposed to get out of it? i need to carefully train my brain to see commodity flows everywhere? am i supposed to be a day trader or a communist? should i buy fair trade coffee or just sit here content knowing that we're one big, beautiful global network of Humanity while continuing on exactly as before? there's nothing there to tell me why that stuff really matters other than that it's written in a way which makes me feel like i've learned something amazingly deep without having to understand anything at all.

[rainyy-babyy]

Explaining Marx’s Theory of Value as you change my diapie 🤭🤭

[c0rpseductor]

i need to see the ocd post every day actually. i asked my mom to get chocolate chips for making pancakes and i felt/feel so guilty bc i actually instated a Rule a while back that i can't ask for chocolate or buy chocolate due to the industry around it being supremely unethical. (and also forgot, apparently, when i got chocolate ice cream on my birthday, but maybe bc it wasnt just straight up chocolate i wasnt thinking.) and i think this is the ocd talking to me

[princehendir]

Okay I'm joining the war on communism against communism because wtf is this!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wormtoxin]

fr tho. where are all these people posting about how much they loooove destroying hospital infrastructure. where are all these devious internet armchair commies posting about how much they love personally going into the nicu and smashing medicine and flipping circuit breakers. What are all of you talking about???

as someone with a disability whose daily life relies on continued uninterrupted access to a medicine which is extremely prone to shortages: I Get It. It’s scary to imagine a situation where you don’t have access to the thing that you need to live. Like many others, I’ve been in that situation before. It’s scary. Scarcity is a terrible thing, and it will absolutely kill and maim when given half a chance.

But come on. Extend that feeling beyond Our National Borders for like- one fucking minute. People trying to live in Inconvenient Ways in Inconvenient Places don’t have enough food. or clean water.

Frankly, and I know this isn’t my decision to make for everyone, but if people have to be disappeared by right-wing death squads or exposed to white phosphorous for me to get my medicine?? I don’t fucking want it.

And that’s medicine I need to live. I also need lithium and cobalt to fuel the reusable battery I use to call my pharmacy. Some people die so that i can save $0.20/gallon at the gas station. Some people died so that Communist Ideals can’t enter the same hemisphere as Washington D.C. People died for chocolate bars. People were killed for Coca Cola.

Can we have serious discussions about how our infrastructure functions now with all its potential failures and necessary costs? Instead of preemptively fighting an imagined unspecified Violent Revolution? Can we talk about how the unsubstantiated threat of Violent (communist) Revolution motivates substantiated violence? How the rhetoric of Violent Revolution has been used to motivate, financially support, and actualize real human deaths? Please? Anyone??

No? Not allowed? Oh okay, sorry. And just to clarify- I’m the one advocating for violence??

[meowm1x]

lol. the AI coke ad.

lol. the corporations investing billions of dollars into gen AI.

lol. the people still burying their heads in the sand about generative AI being an ethics problem that is being heightened by capitalism.

[revindicatedbyhistory-moved]

guy who hears universities are all marxist and postmodern so he gets in depth knowledge of marxism so he will do well in college

[rikaklassen]

Crunchyroll released three episodes of A Sign of Affection on YouTube, an anime about a deaf girl, without any closed captioning.

Ironic.

Hearing people love our visibility, but they don't accommodate.