He's saying that religion takes the pain out of peoples lives by giving them ideas that make living less painful. Marx wants to get rid of the material conditions that cause suffering, so that people will no longer need religion.
The quote is about using materialist political movement to mitigate peoples suffering, not really about religion.
I Fought the Law by The Clash
All their covers are great: Jail Guitar Doors, Police and Thieves, Pressure Drop -- But I Fought the Law is like the best rock cover ever, or at least very close to the top
Nah you can have it, its a good version. The best thing about the g&r version is the bass, its the most well produced bass on like any recording ever. Other than that its bogged down with Axl and Slash just being massive cliches, parodies of their own success.
Great bit, no notes
Yeah this dude gives off Josh Lyman vibes,
Bit idea, the West Wing but every character is the more realistic version of who they would be, with Stuart Seldowitz's bloodthirsty politics
Sectarianism, fed by fanaticism, is always castrating. Radicalization, nourished by a critical spirit, is always creative. Sectarianism mythicizes and thereby alienates; radicalization criticizes and thereby liberates. Sectarianism in any quarter is an obstacle to emancipation of mankind.
-- Paolo Friere
Reading Marx's Wage Labor and Capital is a great prep for those first few difficult chapters of Capital
The capitalist buys the labor power (power is effort applied over time) from the worker for a block of time to produce commodities. The worker contributes some labor power to each commodity so that the value of the commodity is partially made up of that particular worker's labor. The commodity is made of raw materials and other parts that were made or picked or mined by workers, and the machines that are used were also made by workers, and a little value of the machine transfers to the commodity too. So everything that comprises the exchange value of the commodity, is made up of worker labor power.
The capitalist doesn't want to sell the commodity at a loss, so the faster the worker produces commodities for the capitalist, the more money the capitalist makes. Its also always better for the capitalist to get more work out of a fewer number of workers. The capitalist doesn't want to break even either, so the capitalist has the worker produce more commodities than what it costs to buy the workers labor power for that period of time. So for some of the work day, the worker is making commodities that will pay for their own sustenance wages, but for the rest of the day the worker is making commodities for the capitalist, basically the worker is working for free for a large part of the day.
The value created by selling these commodities made with free labor is reinvested in more capital that makes more money for the capitalist. This is why everything that the capitalist owns, all of their capital that they use to make profits, is paid for with the labor power of the workers.
https://anticapital0.wordpress.com/calculating-surplus-value-to-facilitate-workplace-organizing/
This is a good plan. Other than Hexbear I do have access to some small commie publications. Its also a topic I've thought about a lot.
I can probably write a thousand or more words on it. Maybe if other people can do the same, explore the topics and come up with names, etc., we can bring it back here to discuss in more detail.
Idk you've really inspired me so I'm going to run with it. Maybe you or @[email protected] or other HBs can get busy with it and start some discussions.
Lol it got broken up already by the local city council. Disorganized goofiness. Seems like a legit comrade though
There was a post the other week where someone asked for an explainer for LTV, not one person had mentioned labor-power. Took me a while to realize why it is such an important distinction, and why Marx stresses it as so important