Apr 23, 2022·2 repliesMyBallsAndMyWordanyways haven’t posted here before, Maoist gang checking in 🙋🏼♀️
Whos alt
- Apr 23, 2022space0cadet
Whos alt
Not a alt but you real for Machine Girl in your top artists
saw them before they started to blow up in 2015 at a house show 
Apr 23, 2022·1 replyWomanpuncher69😭 😭 😭 😭 😭
Grover Furr?
Apr 23, 2022·1 replyspace0cadetWhos alt
- Apr 23, 2022
Who tf is amplitude
- Apr 23, 2022·2 repliesARCADE GOON
Grover Furr?
Nah its from the polemic on the general line 1965, the Chinese critiques of the CPSU
It comes from this part
ON THE QUESTION OF STALIN
Second Comment on the Open Letter of the Central Committee
of the CPSU
by the Editorial Departments of Renmin Ribao (People's Daily) and Hongqi (Red Flag)
(September 13, 1963) - Apr 23, 2022Womanpuncher69
Nah its from the polemic on the general line 1965, the Chinese critiques of the CPSU
It comes from this part
ON THE QUESTION OF STALIN
Second Comment on the Open Letter of the Central Committee
of the CPSU
by the Editorial Departments of Renmin Ribao (People's Daily) and Hongqi (Red Flag)
(September 13, 1963)
Apr 23, 2022·1 replyMyBallsAndMyWordanyways haven’t posted here before, Maoist gang checking in 🙋🏼♀️
Welcome comrade
- Apr 23, 2022Scratchin Mamba
Welcome comrade
Apr 23, 2022·3 repliesHello friends, I have a question, apologies in advance if it's a stupid one, I kind of just started my journey into socialism this month.
I'm struggling to understand how the rate of profit tends to fall when there's a decrease in surplus value. Wouldn't that work to their benefit?
- Apr 23, 2022·1 replyGoldLink
Hello friends, I have a question, apologies in advance if it's a stupid one, I kind of just started my journey into socialism this month.
I'm struggling to understand how the rate of profit tends to fall when there's a decrease in surplus value. Wouldn't that work to their benefit?
Wouldnt what work to whose benefit ?
- Apr 23, 2022·1 replyARCADE GOON
Wouldnt what work to whose benefit ?
The capitalist, less wages = more profit for them right?
- Apr 23, 2022·1 replyGoldLink
The capitalist, less wages = more profit for them right?
In short term yes in long term no since there are less consumers as well to make the capitalist rich
- Apr 23, 2022·2 repliesARCADE GOON
In short term yes in long term no since there are less consumers as well to make the capitalist rich
Ahhh ok I thought that might've been the reason, thank you brother.
- Apr 23, 2022GoldLink
Hello friends, I have a question, apologies in advance if it's a stupid one, I kind of just started my journey into socialism this month.
I'm struggling to understand how the rate of profit tends to fall when there's a decrease in surplus value. Wouldn't that work to their benefit?
Well when there's a decrease in surplus value relative to the amount of value created, that means the rate of profit would automatically have to fall
- Apr 23, 2022GoldLink
Ahhh ok I thought that might've been the reason, thank you brother.
One of the many contradictions of capitalism hence why we emphasize that term contradiction so much
plants 🌻Apr 23, 2022·edited·1 replyScratchin MambaI'll be honest i don't rly have any principled reason why im not rn
Just convenience and the fact that it's food that can help me reach my goals in fitness while also being tasty
But i think i will transition to a vegan diet tho eventually
one step at a time
- Apr 23, 2022Womanpuncher69
Nah its from the polemic on the general line 1965, the Chinese critiques of the CPSU
It comes from this part
ON THE QUESTION OF STALIN
Second Comment on the Open Letter of the Central Committee
of the CPSU
by the Editorial Departments of Renmin Ribao (People's Daily) and Hongqi (Red Flag)
(September 13, 1963)I got a first edition of the Polemic on the General Line of the International Communist Movement for $10 at a local bookstore
its a collection of all the documents from the Great Line Struggle and has this one in there too. One of my favorites 
Apr 23, 2022Sloth
- Apr 23, 2022·2 repliesGoldLink
Ahhh ok I thought that might've been the reason, thank you brother.
Also the question about the rate of profit falling has to do with what @ARCADE_GOON said about lower wages leading to a smaller consumer base for capitalists and also automation.
When a certain part of the production process is automated this brings higher profits for its earliest adopters, however as other competitors adopt the same technology, prices are driven down and the increased profits from that automation are no more. As a matter of fact, since labor is the only commodity thay creates value because unlike tools etc. it's part in the production process is not completely self-depleting. So now you have less value created relative to capital invested -> rate of profit falling.
- Apr 23, 2022plants· edited
one step at a time
- Apr 23, 2022·2 repliesScratchin Mamba
Also the question about the rate of profit falling has to do with what @ARCADE_GOON said about lower wages leading to a smaller consumer base for capitalists and also automation.
When a certain part of the production process is automated this brings higher profits for its earliest adopters, however as other competitors adopt the same technology, prices are driven down and the increased profits from that automation are no more. As a matter of fact, since labor is the only commodity thay creates value because unlike tools etc. it's part in the production process is not completely self-depleting. So now you have less value created relative to capital invested -> rate of profit falling.
Thank you - Apr 23, 2022GoldLink Thank you
Ofc bro and if you got any questions don't hesitate to ask em itt all of us didn't understand the basics at some point
- Apr 23, 2022Scratchin Mamba
Also the question about the rate of profit falling has to do with what @ARCADE_GOON said about lower wages leading to a smaller consumer base for capitalists and also automation.
When a certain part of the production process is automated this brings higher profits for its earliest adopters, however as other competitors adopt the same technology, prices are driven down and the increased profits from that automation are no more. As a matter of fact, since labor is the only commodity thay creates value because unlike tools etc. it's part in the production process is not completely self-depleting. So now you have less value created relative to capital invested -> rate of profit falling.
And also it gets harder and harder to compete because more technology is needed to keep up with the rest, e.g. imagine how much tech and infrastructure you would need to compete with Amazon. This results in more labor invested just to upkeep machinery and "dead capital" rather than to create new stuff amd profit off workers by skimming on their wages. You can't skim on a robot's costs the way you can do against a human worker
- Apr 23, 2022GoldLink Thank you
Highly recommend checking this out if you want a very accessible, yet thorough, overview of Marxist economics bannedthought.net/USA/RCP/Books/MaoistEconomics-ShanghaiTextbook-Lotta-OCR-sm.pdf
