THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: recursivelyenumerable on January 29, 2008, 06:35:23 PM
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this adorable girl went up and bought something from the pretty young barista. after she bought it they had this conversation:
little girl: Who gets all this money?
barista: The boss gets all of it.
l.g. You don't get any of it?
b. No
l.g. Not even a penny?
b. No
l.g. Not even a tenth of a penny?
b. No
I think I should convert her at a young age before she's been fully brainwashed by the bourgeois education system. Should I have her read the MCP first or have her go straight into Das Kapital? She is currently playing chess and seems pretty smart and precocious
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NO PEDO
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No wonder you fail with women!
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Damn - even PD takes shots at that technique.
oh wait - she is a tike - eww PD.
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have her watch Blame it on Fidel
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No wonder you fail with women!
Oh, I'm not even thinking about that anymore. My new strategy is FIRST overthrow capitalism and replace all existing social and economic relations with new, humane and rational ones based on socialist principles, THEN in the society of the future it should be a lot easier for me to get laid
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when women are forced to whore themselves for blackmarket bread?
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(1) In its first form only a generalisation and consummation of it [of this relation]. As such it appears in a two-fold form: on the one hand, the dominion of material property bulks so large that it wants to destroy everything which is not capable of being possessed by all as private property. It wants to disregard talent, etc., in an arbitrary manner. For it the sole purpose of life and existence is direct, physical possession. The category of the worker is not done away with, but extended to all men. The relationship of private property persists as the relationship of the community to the world of things.
Finally, this movement of opposing universal private property to private property finds expression in the brutish form of opposing to marriage (certainly a form of exclusive private property) the community of women, in which a woman becomes a piece of communal and common property. It may be said that this idea of the community of women gives away the secret of this as yet completely crude and thoughtless communism.[30] Just as woman passes from marriage to general prostitution, [Prostitution is only a specific expression of the general prostitution of the labourer, and since it is a relationship in which falls not the prostitute alone, but also the one who prostitutes – and the latter’s abomination is still greater – the capitalist, etc., also comes under this head. – Note by Marx [31]] so the entire world of wealth (that is, of man’s objective substance) passes from the relationship of exclusive marriage with the owner of private property to a state of universal prostitution with the community. This type of communism – since it negates the personality of man in every sphere – is but the logical expression of private property, which is this negation.
General envy constituting itself as a power is the disguise in which greed re-establishes itself and satisfies itself, only in another way. The thought of every piece of private property as such is at least turned against wealthier private property in the form of envy and the urge to reduce things to a common level, so that this envy and urge even constitute the essence of competition. Crude communism is only the culmination of this envy and of this levelling-down proceeding from the preconceived minimum. It has a definite, limited standard.
How little this annulment of private property is really an appropriation is in fact proved by the abstract negation of the entire world of culture and civilisation, the regression to the unnatural simplicity of the poor and crude man who has few needs and who has not only failed to go beyond private property, but has not yet even reached it.
The community is only a community of labour, and equality of wages paid out by communal capital – by the community as the universal capitalist. Both sides of the relationship are raised to an imagined universality – labour as the category in which every person is placed, and capital as the acknowledged universality and power of the community.
In the approach to woman as the spoil and hand-maid of communal lust is expressed the infinite degradation in which man exists for himself, for the secret of this approach has its unambiguous, decisive, plain and undisguised expression in the relation of man to woman and in the manner in which the direct and natural species-relationship is conceived. The direct, natural, and necessary relation of person to person is the relation of man to woman. In this natural species-relationship man’s relation to nature is immediately his relation to man, just as his relation to man is immediately his relation to nature – his own natural destination. In this relationship, therefore, is sensuously manifested, reduced to an observable fact, the extent to which the human essence has become nature to man, or to which nature to him has become the human essence of man.
From this relationship one can therefore judge man’s whole level of development. From the character of this relationship follows how much man as a species-being, as man, has come to be himself and to comprehend himself; the relation of man to woman is the most natural relation of human being to human being. It therefore reveals the extent to which man’s natural behaviour has become human, or the extent to which the human essence in him has become a natural essence – the extent to which his human nature has come to be natural to him. This relationship also reveals the extent to which man’s need has become a human need; the extent to which, therefore, the other person as a person has become for him a need – the extent to which he in his individual existence is at the same time a social being.
The first positive annulment of private property – crude communism – is thus merely a manifestation of the vileness of private property, which wants to set itself up as the positive community system.
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when women are forced to whore themselves for blackmarket bread?
I dunno, good dystopian SF tends to have "free love" as a fundamental tenet, probably due to all the spandex
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or due to the...uh, solitary nature, of the writers
if you get what i'm saying
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The passage I quoted is my absolute favorite from Marx or anyone else, by the way.
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Marx was an unemployed snob who didn't take care of his family and dreamed up practices that have never worked and never will. GTFO
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What practices?
and pretty much all of my friends are un- or under-employed snobs
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GROUP FAILURE