SEGA GOON

4y

English is not my native tongue so excuse any quirks

Sir Real

4y

Meant that as a compliment, also didn’t know that was an original writing, very good

SEGA GOON

4y

REVOLUTION OR REFORM?

• Capitalism cannot be reformed into socialism. Socialism can only be born out of a revolution, in which the proletariat forcefully imposes its will onto the bourgeoisie.

• However, revolutions can take different forms. A revolution can be a rapidly unfolding event, but a revolution can also be a gradual event. A rapid revolution is vastly preferable over a gradual revolution.

• In the periphery, revolutions will presumably be rapid. In the semi-periphery, revolutions will presumably either be rapid or gradual. In the imperial core, revolutions are highly unlikely as of now.

• A gradual revolution is more likely to succeed if:

1. Land is nationalized; or: 100% taxation of land
2. Finance is nationalized
3. Military, intelligence and police are controlled
4. Money-to-labor voucher transition occurs
5. The judiciary and other political structures are slowly taken over.

If market socialism is necessary, it should only be a transitional method.

• Even a rapid revolution takes years, if not decades of preparation. The revolution is only a final act in a long chain of events, and the same time a new beginning that will bear the birthmarks of the old society.

• A revolution can occur in random moments, but it can only be steered into the direction of socialism if a proper movement is already in place. It is too late to start organizing once revolutionary fervor already spreads, let alone post-revolution.

• Reforms are useful for the movement. With reforms, the communists can win the trust of the people, increase class consciousness and spread their name.

• Rejecting reforms in order to promote accelerationist goals is counter-productive. Reforms alone do not decrease revolutionary pressure.

• However, minimum goals of reform must always be combined with maximum goals of revolution. Reforms without revolutionary struggle is counter-productive, revolutionary struggle without engaging in reforms is counter-productive. Reform and revolution are not dichotomies. They must co-exist with each other; they are two sides of the same class struggle. The vanguard must combine both methods.

Womanpuncher69

4y

why would revolutions in the periphery presumably be rapid?

nonviolence

4y

Theory is a bourgeoisie trap

This is what praxis looks like

Lein

4y

I didnt know the Confederacy planned to become a theocratic dictatorship, invade Central/South America, and institute a system of apartheid/slavery that included everyone even white people thank God these demons were put down

americana

4y

We got @cloud_rap ’s equivalent if the fascism post itt?

americana

4y

We got @cloud_rap ’s equivalent if the fascism post itt?

SEGA GOON

4y

Wtf is disturbing about it lmao

deadacc

4y

the gross part is the assumption that the arbitrary unattractiveness of someone means you deserve anything from them

its ok to get curved comrade it happens

SEGA GOON

4y

Lmao I dont deserve anything and I didnt even wanna go out with her that much after seeing her pic tbh

A dog looking girl calling you ugly while a dimepiece asks for a date the same day, that's what's funny

deadacc

4y

whys it funny tho

p apollo

4y

A few more good longform posts and we can publish Assorted works of KTT2 Socialism Thread Vol. I

SEGA GOON

4y

• Value has a relational, a processual and a dynamic nature, which leads to it constantly expanding, “endowed with a motion of its own”. When the social algorithm of value infects its own substance – abstract labor – it proceeds to establish the capitalist social relation of wage labor, the purchase and sale of labor power, and now becomes capital, self-valorizing value. “Value therefore now becomes value in process, money in process, and as such, capital”.

• Value exists as capital – the social algorithm of value goes beyond mere social production and reproduction, and now invades with its abstract code both human and non-human nature. This expansion does not have a teleological character, but remains a spontaneous, socially objective process without a planning subject. The search for profit is the conscious aim of capitalists, the same way that organisms instinctively pursue the goal of survival.

• Value is what transforms mere objects of use for humans into commodities standing in social relation between them. Value is not a static concept, but rather a process, a social algorithm.

• Algorithms were not defined in the times of Marx. However, Marx, in his Mathematical Manuscripts, actually foreshadowed the notion of algorithms when he tried to interpret differential calculus. The mathematical procedure developed by Marx shows how it is possible to obtain from a purely abstract and symbolic process, such as the algorithm of derivation, a real and factual result, such as the function derivative, which is actually operating in nature and whose discovery has allowed important practical applications in a wide range of techniques. The concept of value, elaborated by Marx in the economic works of his maturity, presents strong logical a***ogies with the symbolic operator of derivation in their common structure of algorithm – a purely abstract procedure that produces factual results.

• Value is as a social algorithm operating in market exchange, acting as a symbolic operator of social equivalence between commodities. As operator, value consists of a procedure, an ordered and finite set of steps necessary to achieve a given result. As symbolic operator, value is an abstract procedure that applies in commodity market exchange to content or substance logically distinct from itself. As operator of equivalence, value determines a quantitative relation, requiring that the substance to which it applies is commensurable and qualitatively identical between commodities, differing among them only quantitatively. As social operator, value has a purely social substance, in the sense that it is independent of any physical, natural, and material features of the commodities. As Marx points out, the only possible common feature that meets the criteria of quantitative social equivalence is that the commodities are all the product of human labor. Labor is therefore the substance to which the social algorithm of value applies.

• Abstract labor is the substance of value, and has a dual nature.

• Exchange value is the form of value, and has a dual nature.

• Value is therefore measured dually: In money and in labor-time.

• In term, it must be possible to express labor-time in money, which would of course also mean that money can be expressed in labor-time.

• Unequal exchange is a situation in which value in production (labor time) is different from value in circulation (money).

SEGA GOON

4y

Because I can't be that ugly if another person asks me out the same day and because the person who insisted on calling me ugly was hideous

deadacc

4y

i mean i get what you mean but you keep calling that person hideous which is ironic

like the whole irony of the situation is someone hideous calling somebody else hideous, while simultaneously the person who was deemed hideous is calling the other person hideous

sorry that they were so rude to you tho

SEGA GOON

4y

She sent me a single picture on WhatsApp that disappears right away when you look at it (like Snapchat) while I sent her multiple pics with body and everything that don't disappear.

She asked "do you like my looks? otherwise this wouldn't make sense", but I didn't see her message and went for a shower. When I came back, I kept seeing her typing a message and then deleting it. I said "It's hard to judge you from one picture I saw for a few seconds. I am still interested in meeting you and don't really care for looks anyway as I have told you", then she said "well I am not interested in you physically at all but thank you for the conversation"

Mind you this was off an anomymous post about her seeking a long-term relationship on a text-based app If she insisted so much on looks why not go to Tinder?

Anyway the irony was a gorgeous girl asking me for a date the same day and calling me handsome more than once which flattered me

SEGA GOON

4y

She sent me a single picture on WhatsApp that disappears right away when you look at it (like Snapchat) while I sent her multiple pics with body and everything that don't disappear.

She asked "do you like my looks? otherwise this wouldn't make sense", but I didn't see her message and went for a shower. When I came back, I kept seeing her typing a message and then deleting it. I said "It's hard to judge you from one picture I saw for a few seconds. I am still interested in meeting you and don't really care for looks anyway as I have told you", then she said "well I am not interested in you physically at all but thank you for the conversation"

Mind you this was off an anomymous post about her seeking a long-term relationship on a text-based app If she insisted so much on looks why not go to Tinder?

Anyway the irony was a gorgeous girl asking me for a date the same day and calling me handsome more than once which flattered me

deadacc

4y

yea its definitely a rude response but you dont have to be that person barking back

youve got a date lined up and everything its beneath you man

SEGA GOON

4y

I didnt bark back at all, even refrained from calling em ugly by saying I cant judge u from a pic All I was doing was having a laff privately on ktt

americana

4y

Last five points are a banger

deadacc

4y

i mean not in person but the way you described the story here reads like that

also ^