AlistairTheGreat

Most right wingers don't want to admit they are betabuxxers in denial.

The wage cope begins to fade, the struggling guy you called lazy was you all along.

​ @MentisWave doesn't understand that centralization is an ongoing process within capitalism that is unavoidable. Every competition has its winners, and he wants to maintain an eternal artificial competition.

Tonight at 9:30pm EST I will be doing a collaboration stream with @theyankeetankie on the possibility of an Energy Theory of Value in Marxism. We will be talking about the Labor Theory of Value, and we will be talking about the relationship energy has in how human society reproduces its material existence.

Article On Economic Planning: https://alistairthegreat.substack.com/p/planning-an-economy

Are baristas proletariat, according to the classical marxist definition, yes. The infrared community seems to be operating on their own definition and I have asked them to justify it.

You never get the full proceeds of your labor, even in socialism. You have never received the full value (labor-value) of the labor power you sell, and you never will. Thanks for the debate Karim. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm To understand what is implied in this connection by the phrase "fair distribution", we must take the first paragraph and this one together. The latter presupposes a society wherein the instruments of labor are common property and the total labor is co-operatively regulated, and from the first paragraph we learn that "the proceeds of labor belong undiminished with equal right to all members of society." "To all members of society"? To those who do not work as well? What remains then of the "undiminished" proceeds of labor? Only to those members of society who work? What remains then of the "equal right" of all members of society? But "all members of society" and "equal right" are obviously mere phrases. The kernel consists in this, that in this communist society every worker must receive the "undiminished" Lassallean "proceeds of labor". Let us take, first of all, the words "proceeds of labor" in the sense of the product of labor; then the co-operative proceeds of labor are the total social product. From this must now be deducted: First, cover for replacement of the means of production used up. Second, additional portion for expansion of production. Third, reserve or insurance funds to provide against accidents, dislocations caused by natural calamities, etc. These deductions from the "undiminished" proceeds of labor are an economic necessity, and their magnitude is to be determined according to available means and forces, and partly by computation of probabilities, but they are in no way calculable by equity. There remains the other part of the total product, intended to serve as means of consumption.