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Empirical Foundations and Human Limits
1. Stagnation of Wages vs. Explosion of Capital Returns
Several influential studies confirm the widening gap between labor income and capital income, which legitimizes the strategic use of rentier mechanisms for economic self-defense:

Piketty & Saez (2003, 2014): In the U.S. and France, real wages for the bottom 50 % have stagnated since the 1980s, while the top 1 % capital holders have captured most of the income gains.

OECD (2017): Labor’s share of GDP has declined in nearly all advanced economies over the past 30 years.

IMF (2019): Highlights how technological change and global financialization have shifted income away from wages and toward capital-intensive returns.

These data underscore the structural fragility of a wage-only life strategy, especially in urbanized and high-rent economies.

2. Psychological and Social Limits of the Model
Despite its technical robustness, the family collective wealth model carries human and ethical tensions:

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>>24457
whoever wrote this really didn't think "hey, who is renting these single family homes?" when they said this method will herald a shift away from wage earning, or that money could be put towards social ends etc?? Obviously it's workers now paying higher rents rather than a mortgage even, now a new class of perma-rentiers who rent suburban houses and will never be able to house their children for free pops up, creating more economic vulnerability to be escaped… is this AI?

penguin's is still the best english translation

>It translates the fourth German edition yet again?
No, the basis is the second German edition, the last one that went through the hands of Marx.
>why not the fifth German edition edited by Karl Kautsky
That edition was made for easy reading and is not taken seriously by academics.

>>24455
>the second German edition
Well, I appreciate at least that he's doing something different, even if I disagree with the implication that Engels vulgarized Marx.
>That edition was made for easy reading and is not taken seriously by academics.
Why not? I'm genuinely curious to know what the differences are between Engels' fourth and Kautsky's fifth editions. Whatever changes were made weren't such that it wasn't taken seriously by Lenin's generation.

who cares what this reactionary pervert thinks? i only care what revolutionary perverts think!

Marx was a gooner

Was Marx fascist???

bump

Secular jew Yasha Levine (Surveillance Valley) continues his recent journey of shock and awe through Judaism. Wild shit tbh.
>We talk with Rachel Feldman about messianic zionism and the Temple Movement, which wants to end Judaism as we know it and replace it with an Israelite theocracy in the Holy Land complete with animal sacrifices — to go back more than 2,000 years to before Rome destroyed Jerusalem and ended Jewish rule. We also discuss the core of Rachel’s research: Noahidism, a new global religion for non-Jews that’s being spread by messianic zionists, including Chabad rabbis, in support of this future Israelite theocracy. Along the way we discuss the religious origins of zionist ideas, the unbroken chain linking secular and religious zionism, and the increasing radicalization of Jewish society in the direction of this messianic movement. This whole thing is a lot less fringe than you might think.
>Rachel Feldman is a professor of religion at Dartmouth and is an anthropologist of Judaism. This talk is inspired by her new book: Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age: Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary
here's a direct link to the episode
>https://jumble.top/s/yasha/151195367/a5c52c6d44e72e9035eabbebe17284f5.mp3

<TRAITOROUS EX OBAMA GEOSTRATEGIC PLANNER AND IR PROFESSOR WONK IS PARROTING XI'S TALKING POINTS
I was a regular hate listener to his pod until a year ago and was honestly pretty surprised at how rational this recent lecture is. He introduces some interesting concepts and it's not long.
>like how the US talks about and treats Micronesia and Polynesia and the Pacific region as a frontier
>which should make residents and neighbours very nervous because it gives the US license to treat the region like a frontier that they have a strategic use for, where claims can be made in a state of exception, and not sovereign states who want to develop and prosper

>>24434
This is the most awful video, worse than a seizure.

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/pill-pod-210-new-york-times-lies-about-fascism-experts-fleeing-trump--66346907
<TWO CANADIAN PHILOSOPHY PROFESSORS (possibly the most polite type of guy ever to exist) ARE EXTREMELY RUDE TO STUNNING AND BRAVE US ACADEMICS FLEEING FASCISM TO LEAF UNIVERSITIES ON THEIR PHILOSOPHY PODCAST
<EVIL LATAM MADURO TOADY THIRD MIC CLEARLY LEADS THESE GOOD BOYES ASTRAY WHILE THE REGULAR FOURTH MIC LIBERAL LEAF, WHO NORMALLY CONDITIONS DISCUSSION, IS ABSENT
>DANGEROUS MARXIST PROPAGANDA RESULTS
A lot of lols in the first 20 minutes, some unbelievable context and history about these fleeing academics.

The war of the triple alliance episodes from Regime Radio are pretty insightful, great detail about the economies, class compositions and political intrigues of the pre and post independence Southern Cone
https://open.spotify.com/show/1k0PAwEZG8MuhMDlW7HcjJ

I just go to audiobookbay. BTW OP, Hobsbawm's "Age of " tetralogy is great nonfiction history.

>Age of Revolution
>Age of Capital
>Age of Empire
>Age of Extremes

Great books.

Full Audiobooks of Das Kapital and Theories of Surplus Value excellently read aloud in high quality and uploaded for free on Youtube by Andrew S Rightenburg
https://www.youtube.com/@AndrewSRightenburg/videos
Many other free Marxist audiobooks:
https://www.youtube.com/@SocialismForAll
https://www.youtube.com/@dessalines6388/videos

>>23418
>first is the assertion that marx was not a theorist of barter,
he wasn't, at least not in the sense that adam smith was. marx pointed out (and this was verified by anthropologists in the 20th century) that under "primitive communism" (what we now call hunter gatherer societies), barter took place between communities rather than individuals. So the level of barter was not a constant search for double coincidences of wants between individuals living in the same society. At the community level things were shared (to a considerable extent but not a total extent) while between communities barters were arranged. Basically bater occurs between groups that tolerate but do not entirely trust each other, in hunter gatherer society. Furthermore (and here I'm going with Caroline Humphrey and David Graeber) to the extent that people did barter inside primitive societies, it wasn't pure barter, but rather long term arrangements that didn't rely on a continual coincidence of wants. I.e. I give you fish today, since they will go bad, and you give me the stone axe a week from now after you have made it. I accept this time lag because i trust you and we will make similar arrangements in the future and have had similar arrangements in the past.


Here is Marx in chapter 2 of capital volume 1 where he mentions barter for the first time in that book:

>The direct barter of products attains the elementary form of the relative expression of value in one respect, but not in another. That form is x Commodity A = y Commodity B. The form of direct barter is x use-value A = y use-value B.[5] The articles A and B in this case are not as yet commodities, but become so only by the act of barter. The first step made by an object of utility towards acquiring exchange-value is when it forms a non-use-value for its owner, and that happens when it forms a superfluous portion of some article required for his immediate wants. Objects in themselves are external to man, and consequently alienable by him. In order that this alienation may be reciprocal, it is only necessary for men, by a tacit understanding, to treat each other as private owners of those alienable objects, and by implication as independent individuals. But such a state of reciprocal independence has no existence in a primitive society based on property in common, whether such a society takes the foPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>23424
read Humphrey on barter
https://voidnetwork.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Barter-and-economic-disintegration-by-Caroline-Humphrey.pdf

Found To Kill A Nation by Michael Parenti on youtube. Very good and very short book.

most of marx's work wasnt even published in his lifetime, and works like capital vol. 2 and 3 were edited by engels. marx was not an island.

I think Plekhanov's formulation is the best.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1898/xx/individual.html
>Without a Marx noticing everything and spreading his ideas, we wouldn't be here.
Why was Marx able to come up with his theory of history? You might say because he had access to the ideas of others before him, but even those ideas were able to develop because of the development of scientific technology and social organization. Historical materialism would be impossible without a mountain of resources to make such a historical theory from. Dialectical materialism would be impossible without sufficient scientific development which requires experimentation with developed technology. His critique of philosophy required the theories of Proudhon, Fichte, etc to develop, which required capitalist relations in order to be able to criticize property or praise nationalism.

>>24348
>Why was Marx able to come up with his theory of history?
hegel.

>>24348
>why was marx able to come up with his theory of history?
Because he was smart and worked hard

>>24364
>horse champagne glass.jpeg
Pooner anon, is that you?

>>24367
Much appreciated.

>>23952
these are all so specific bruh theres no way you arent projecting

>I need to read irrelevant philosopher to understand other IP to understand another IP to understand the guy who correctly rubbished and critiqued them all
Come on.

>>24360
Wow that painting is pretty fuckin' beautiful

>>24362
The funny part about that Jacobin trash is that all the quotetweets are absolutely clueless too. Of course what Chibber says isn't materialism he's just peddling naive realism under the label. But he's not entirely wrong: communists do understand class actions as driven by material (i.e., economic) interests.

The key is that communists don't just assume people act out of class interest, they expose those interests, make them conscious, which is what actually reform of consciousness. It's not that everyone always knows or follows their class interest, class society hides those interests behind moral justifications, even morality talks against those interests. Also, I'm not sold on Chibber's democratic idealism. There's no mention of the middle class and how their democratic demands actually obstruct the class interests of the proletariat.

>>24352
logic was first *formalised* by aristotle.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-logic/Aristotle
logic was not "invented" by aristotle of course, but has always been the unconscious determination of thought, which we otherwise call "reason" (λόγος).
the theory of λόγος (Logos) itself is derived from heraclitus, in the philosophic tradition, but heraclitus himself refers to λόγος as the "fire" of life, explicitly associated with persian zoroastrianism (mithraism - which later inspires christianity), where as we read in John 1:1,
<"Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος."

>>24314
>Pretty much everyone in China will tell you the Chinese canon is inferior to the Western canon and doesn't answer the sort of questions that were answered in India, but the Chinese never really bought in to "philosophy" as such
That's a silly inferiority complex, Chinese philosophy addresses questions of the state in a way that western philosophy didn't engage with until a millennia later, and that's being very charitable to western philosophy

>>24354
any examples?

>>24355
The entire school of legalistic
Before that and before aristotle the mohist school developed a consequentialist approach to to the state and also a formal system of logic

You don't really see anything like this in the western cannon until Hobbes

>>24356
*school of legalists

>>24174
Mind mapping is basically flow charts for how the brain thinks. Start with something in the middle. Like Karl Marx. Then from there, around it, write related things you’ve been studying, labor theory of value, cool beard, super structure, etc. then from those points write related points to those things that are more specific. It takes advantage of spatial and relational memory centers of the brain when compared to a normal list of information.

>>24178
Is it for revising material that you already know? Or why would you make a mind map of Marx?

>>24179
You can use it to brainstorm with others, but yes, it’s mostly a way to organize recently learned information. It’s useful to med and law students who have to learn whole textbooks for exams. It’s like making a memory palace on paper… almost. I mean, just try it out right now. Get out a sheet of paper and a pen and think of a subject you know quite a bit about and chart something out. Dark souls lore. Moby dick. Lies about the dprk. Anything.

Read from the top of the page in a southern direction, when you run out of words, proceed to the next page (usually located towards the east in English texts) and repeat until you run out of pages to read. You may need to do this procedure multiple times from beginning to end if you feel the information is not sinking in.

>>24166
I guess I had a more complicated answer than fasting that hits some of the points in this thread. Sometimes there is a wall when you know you need to do something and then doing it. From my experience, if 'just do it' doesn't work, then its either physiological or emotional. Either something in your body isn't quite right and the solution is to fix the body first. It's really hard when you can't "just do it" to "just do it" to yet another thing like working out or getting your diet clean. The easiest way to fix the physiological issue is to literally fast. It's the absence of doing. There's also stuff like sleep hygiene and such. The point is that your body could be fucked and that's why you can't mentally do the thing. A weak body is like a weak battery. There's no willpower charge left. The other way you could be fucked up is emotionally. And you may not be good enough at identifying your own emotions to notice. Have you ever wondered why it's "I don't feel like it"? WELL THAT MEANS YOU ARE FEELING AN EMOTION AND THE EMOTION IS WHAT IS CONTROLING YOU. You can't LOGIC your way out of FEELING. You have to meditate or journal or think or treat yourself or figure out some way to COPE with the PAIN you have associated with the task. And even THAT all takes a lot of work. But it's not like you'll do the emotional work because you ALSO DONT FEEL LIKE DOING THAT TOO. Which is why, again, fasting is a cheat code. You literally stop eating for 24 hours and the fucking brain boost from the keytones will have you full of energy. Enough energy to then set up systems and WORK on WORKING ON YOURSELF so that when you are back to DUMB you, you can JUST DO IT.