Post #2017212
2026-03-12 10:19 UTC
Marx calls the expansion of capitalist wrecking logic into previously left-alone areas of human work "subsumption", and this process won't stop until the last bit of surplus value is wrung out of the production process. The only way to stop it, the only chance of being crafts-people again, is revolution.
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@redlibrarian@mastodon.social 2026-03-12 10:20
But creative and cognitive workers, who are now finding themselves no-longer-protected from the dehumanizing processes of subsumption, need to recognize their immunity was only ever at the whim of capital, and realize that they are not naturally privileged over other workers, but are the same. There must be a slogan about workers everywhere uniting something something.
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@twipped@twipped.social 2026-03-12 15:13
@redlibrarian @brooke I don't think the US is capable of a marxist revolution. We're too divided, both culturally and physically. I do not see anything changing in north america without the death of the union, and even then things will only improve regionally. Or in other words...