me showing up for my scheduled class like a good boy.

Thanks as always, comrade.

I mean I’m not a philosopher or an expert but I don’t think you can read Capital and not conclude that Marx is at least partially motivated by moral outrage. Page after page of examples of children doing dangerous and exhausting work, rigorously documenting just how little food workers are getting, he even waxes poetic at times to make it clear how bad he thinks the capitalists are when they defend these realities as necessary or moral.

It’s not strictly necessary for the theory to be useful (hell, it seems like the worst capitalists clearly understand the theory, even if they don’t articulate it in the same terms) but Marx isn’t, in my opinion, neutral as to which side is good. Even if he would say it’s best to assume a scientific detachment I think he has picked a side, and not merely for material reasons.

Are cissies “work/government issue” or “copied a friend’s”?

Wait your position is that landlords are renting out places in major US cities at a lower cost than the mortgage? Are they billionaire philanthropists?

I’m trying to decide what version of volume 2 to get. I’m worried that if I have to try to read it on a screen it won’t work out, and I’m not confident that I could listen to the audio format and understand it.

I wish there were 3 volume sets that weren’t like $1000.

What’s your favorite place to go to/you have been to? I guess those could be separate answers.

Even if you’re almost always indoors/work nights? I always lathered up multiple times when I worked outside or whenever I went anywhere to hang out in the sun, but maybe I need to add sunscreen to my daily routine of peering hatefully at the rays that intrude into my cave.

As a the sun is definitely my enemy. I hide from it whenever possible like the cave dweller I was meant to be before Dr. Yakub changed me.

Love to have my position determined by the range of other people’s positions around me. Really saves me the effort of using my brain.

I was pumped for it last year, thought it would be out before Christmas.

Here I remain, pumped.

It’s a ten year relationship? Out of curiosity how have you been coping up until now? Surely this isn’t a total out-of-the-blue surprise? If it wasn’t a crisis before now then maybe your coping mechanisms are already good for handling the situation to some degree and just need tweaking.

I assume from what you’ve said that they’re open to non-monogamy?

Tough though in any case, best of luck comrade.

Yeah moreso than any of the previous readings this one feels like all the ideas being brought together so you can see what they mean in motion.

Lol the cops need to be paid to hang out with cute children or they won’t do it. The store needs to pay for their public outreach program. The disdain for the people is palpable.

Jsyk if you owe money at tax time and you’re a regular employee who gets a w2 you probably should try to get your withholding fixed. Odds are something is wrong with your w4 and what you told them to take out isn’t accurate. If those forms are filled out properly you’ll usually be close if not completely square when you file.

Hope everyone is doing well, I know last week’s thread was a bit slow. Health and happiness to the whole book club!

That said, this reading has been the most conceptually horrifying to me so far. I knew the terms we throw around, I knew roughly what alienation meant and surplus value and all that. But seeing the system broken down and revealed to be entirely surplus value, to be entirely stolen and then given back piecemeal so that part of the machinery can keep itself lubricated to come back tomorrow… Not a great feeling.

My favorite Israeli history tidbit is how their terror cells assassinated one of the guys trying to negotiate a peaceful way out of the violence creating the state of Israel caused because they were (wrongly, it turns out) afraid that the official government would try to take a peaceful solution to the conflict which might have jeopardized the creation of the ethnostate.

Bernadotte had previously gained international renown for negotiating the release of thousands of Nazi concentration camp prisoners including hundreds of interred Jewish people.

You ever complete the trifecta and swear allegiance to the Bible too? We did three pledges. Granted it was a Christian private school though.

Joe is infuriating with these PR moves, it’s frustrating that they work so well on people who only digest headlines.

“It said an “immediate and sustained ceasefire” was “imperative” adding that “towards that end” unequivocal support should be given to the hostage negotiations.”

Read the danged article folks, it’s just saying “a ceasefire would be good, they need to agree to our hostage deal to do that.” They’re not calling for a ceasefire unequivocally, it’s a continuation of the Biden position from a new venue in the hope that it will, aesthetically, look like they’re doing something.

At least until we see the resolution we should be careful about just granting Joe credit foe this.

Edit: That is the resolution, it’s literally just the Biden-Israel line of “agree to our deal and we’ll stop for 6 weeks” which they are peddling as if that amounts to a durable ceasefire.