@[email protected] I hope it’s okay to ping you? I just wanted to say like, this part in section 4 really reminded me a lot of what you said last week about like, underemployment

The third category of the relative surplus population, the stagnant, forms a part of the active labour army, but with extremely irregular employment. Hence it furnishes to capital an inexhaustible reservoir of disposable labour power. Its conditions of life sink below the average normal level of the working class; this makes it at once the broad basis of special branches of capitalist exploitation. It is characterised by maximum of working-time, and minimum of wages. We have learnt to know its chief form under the rubric of “domestic industry.” It recruits itself constantly from the supernumerary forces of modern industry and agriculture, and specially from those decaying branches of industry where handicraft is yielding to manufacture, manufacture to machinery.

I’m assuming section 4 also included? Also this sounds extremely familiar to today time. Mainly with employers talking about how “no one wants to work anymore”

The contradiction is not more glaring than that other one that there is a complaint of the want of hands, while at the same time many thousands are out of work, because the division of labour chains them to a particular branch of industry

earthshine is such a fun thing to say

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I’m feeling a lot better today and its nice and warm outside and its nice getting that sun

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yes, minus the anticommunist themes in it

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I finished system shock 2 and it was pretty fun. Now I really want to try the system shock 1 remake one day. I dunno why but im in like a really energetic better mood today unlike yesterday

That makes a lot of sense, esp. with the part on under employment. Since like you said, that is a really big problem.

They should have shown to have done stuff, like actually helping people or like doing things in the past that helped communities. Instead of just useless talk.

I been thinking about that champion of light song from alan wake 2, ill just spoiler tag it?

I was kind of thinking about like the end of section three. Mainly with this part

as soon as they discover that the degree of intensity of the competition among themselves depends wholly on the pressure of the relative surplus population; as soon as, by Trades’ Unions, &c., they try to organise a regular co-operation between employed and unemployed in order to destroy or to weaken the ruinous effects of this natural law of capitalistic production on their class, so soon capital and its sycophant, Political Economy, cry out at the infringement of the “eternal” and so to say “sacred” law of supply and demand. Every combination of employed and unemployed disturbs the “harmonious” action of this law.

but why isn’t like organization of the unemployed not talk about much compared to like organization of the employed in today’s time? since both each play a role with like the accumulation of capital. and what would organization of the unemployed mean or look like? or like that regular co-operation between employed and unemployed

the only closet idea I have of like that and to what Marx said. Is like, when it comes to strikes, organized workers not wanting anyone to be scabs?

I learned about technical and organic composition of capital. Since I never heard of that before until like a few days ago, it’s really new to me

hehehehehehe, losing my mind. my dad was passed out on on his chair… again. but he was fine. anyways he woke up. and I thought he was going to bed. since this is pretty normal. instead… he asks if I wanted to go to the store… at midnight… because he thought we needed something? and he was ready to head out. but like he slowly realized that like. it’s midnight and that we don’t need anything…

and… heheheheheheheheheheheeh. I’m just gonna turn to my spiritual beliefs now if I don’t want to get all self harm like or something on myself. but I certainty do want to cry

It is scary, its just like. How could they pretend that like nothing just happened? Like morgues being full that like freezer trucks have to be used. My mom worked in a part of healthcare. She saw what happened before dying last year from other stuff. Meanwhile like, my siblings? They downplay covid, refusing to even get vaccinated, and just like… It angers me. Especially since like my mom saw what covid did, and my mom tried encouraging my siblings to get vaccinated and take it seriously. But they just dismissed her after like the stuff she’s seen. She also caught covid herself to a few times to and it got bad at a few points.

and I just don’t know how. How do people ignore all this stuff or pretend like nothing happened?

It is done and now I can sleeeeeeeeeeeeeep