Marie

Late 20s; she/her (EN) sie/ihr (DE); white USAmerican; TMA; English/German speaking; materialist girl in a dialectic world

[marxistlesbianist]

Capital (Abridged) in summary

I meet a lot of people who tell me they tried to read Capital and bounced off of it. Of course, Marx’s opus is both very long and somewhat dense (especially if you don’t have much experience reading such theory), and so I always recommend people dead set on the tome try Capital (Abridged).* To help people with this book, I have also been writing summaries of each chapter.

Chapter I: Commodities, Prices, Profits

Chapter II: Profit and Value in Circulation

Chapter III: Value in Use and Exchange Value, the Socially Necessary Labor

Chapter IV: Purchase and Sale of Labor Power

Chapter V: How Surplus Value Arises

(Future chapters forthcoming—if I can just get back around to it)

*Ed. Julian Borchardt, 1919. Trans. Stephen L. Trask, 1932.

[marxistlesbianist]

The Sun is a kind of maid who helps with the drying of lawn chair cushions you left out in the rain by accident

[marxistlesbianist]

It never fails to depress me when I see baby leftists asking basic questions that are very directly answered by famous communist theory. We read for a reason, fellow anon, don't be proud of your ignorance and don't skip doing the reading just because you have access to someone can answer your question at the moment.

Disagree. I think that it's our duty as a new generation of Marxists to be able to answer these kinds of questions in our own language and with reference to our own material conditions. The value of the literature passed down to us from Marx & Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, etc. is less that it teaches us what to think, and more that it teaches us how to think. These famous works of Communist literature demonstrate equations based on observations of a world different from the one we now inhabit, and it's up to us to re-apply these equations to our present world.

Further, asking even basic questions is a common and comfortable part of learning, and answering basic questions in our own words is an opportunity to "show the work" and practice dialectical materialism. If all we can do to answer these questions is point at old books, then we don't actually understand the theory ourselves.

Whilst of course I encourage people to read the classics of Marxism, I think that expecting people to have done so on their own is setting yourself up for disappointment. Don't be depressed that people haven't yet read enough of the principles; be excited that people are showing interest in the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat!

[newbluntprincess]

Reminds me of a famous Sankara quote

[marxistlesbianist]

Yesss!

I wish I could use this whole poster as my ask button

[marxistlesbianist]

I love answering basic questions that you could answer yourselves if you just read more famous Communist books. Ladies, please send me more of your basic questions that you could answer yourselves if you just read more famous Communist books 👉👈

[marxistlesbianist]

It never fails to depress me when I see baby leftists asking basic questions that are very directly answered by famous communist theory. We read for a reason, fellow anon, don't be proud of your ignorance and don't skip doing the reading just because you have access to someone can answer your question at the moment.

Disagree. I think that it's our duty as a new generation of Marxists to be able to answer these kinds of questions in our own language and with reference to our own material conditions. The value of the literature passed down to us from Marx & Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, etc. is less that it teaches us what to think, and more that it teaches us how to think. These famous works of Communist literature demonstrate equations based on observations of a world different from the one we now inhabit, and it's up to us to re-apply these equations to our present world.

Further, asking even basic questions is a common and comfortable part of learning, and answering basic questions in our own words is an opportunity to "show the work" and practice dialectical materialism. If all we can do to answer these questions is point at old books, then we don't actually understand the theory ourselves.

Whilst of course I encourage people to read the classics of Marxism, I think that expecting people to have done so on their own is setting yourself up for disappointment. Don't be depressed that people haven't yet read enough of the principles; be excited that people are showing interest in the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat!

[alpacinosgf]

why are YOU as a man admitting to enjoying being hit and smacked and just generally manhandled by women

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

these are the game renditions of these characters btw

[marxistlesbianist]

This scene is like 50% of the reason why I refuse to call this movie bad. despite its undeniably low quality

[marxistlesbianist]

Is sexual promiscuity actually bourgeois bc I might as well kill myself

Not at all

[marxistlesbianist]

The exploitation of generalized labor is bourgeois, and the commodification of sexuality is a feature of capitalism. The misconception you bring up comes from the fact that theorists with underdeveloped notions of sexuality have historically conflated sexual promiscuity and the commodification of sexuality, leading to erroneous (and sometimes outright reactionary) ideas of sexuality, even from otherwise progressive politicians

[marxistlesbianist]

Is sexual promiscuity actually bourgeois bc I might as well kill myself

Not at all

[ashes2caches]

happy tgirl, touching her breasts: wow… hrt really is magic…

materialist tgirl: no it isn’t. all of the effects can be explained via scientific inquiry.

[im-mender]

agnostic tgirl: nobody knows why hrt made your boobs so soft and pretty.

[marxistlesbianist]

[marxistlesbianist]

Let's fucking go !!!!!

[datura-inoxia]

I want to eat gluten free empanadas with the fatties and the trans.

[marxistlesbianist]

Then perhaps consider reaching out to the Anti-War Action Network! Much to the chagrin of the Zionist press, it's a very approachable group 😉

[marxistlesbianist]

White co-worker *gesturing to a receipt with no tip on it*: "see, this is why I hate Black people"

Black customer: "you were real nice serving us see, that's why I gave you that nice tip there"

Really makes you think

[marxistlesbianist]

Being engaged politically with "leftists" soc dems is so fucking exhausting. I'm lurking in a server for them and someone got mad when their parents got described as petite bourgeoisie and tried to get the offender to take it back. The US is cooked beyond all repair.

Stop trying to engage politically with petite bourgeois kids and join an organization that actually does mass work within the proletariat!

Between the George Floyd uprisings of 2020, the 2024 student intifada, and the anti-ICE uprisings of 2025–6, this current decade has seen the sharpest increase in class struggle since the New Communist Movement of the 60s/70s—the decline of Amerikkkan imperialism is beginning to erode the material conditions which have set our local proletariat apart from the global working class, and people here are responding with a resurgent labor movement and more militant struggle around social issues. Nearly every socialist organization here is seeing rapid growth!

The whole country isn't "cooked beyind all repair"; you're generalizing from your experience in a frying pan

[marxistlesbianist]

Understanding people as intelligent beings, craft a political strategy that convincingly makes the case for why they and their lot are very likely to benefit from joining your political project. Not in some utopian infinite timescale, but soon.

If you cannot make this case, then forget about convincing the person in question. Focus instead on finding other people to whom such a case can be made. This will lead you directly to class analysis.

Roderic Day, Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing”

[marxistlesbianist]

The history of socialist movements in Amerikkka is a history of mass mobalizations around genuinely progressive demands being divided and smothered by the imperialist bourgeoisie, using the spoils of empire to buy off enough proletarians that they can unleash violence on the rest.* Crucially, this bribery has never actually produced stable prosperity for even the white working class: the economic expansion of the 1920s led to the great depression; the recovery of the New Deal and the WWII economy led to the financial crisis of the 1970s; the neo-liberal turn of the 1980s led to our present economic mire. Historically, these crises have led to outbursts of revolutionary activity, however the 1980s counterrevolution so thoroughly dismembered our left, that our new generation of activists has a long way to go.

What we are currently seeing is the slow but steady reemergence of socialist politics here, at the same time that the system of wealth production/extraction with which the bourgeoisie bribed past generations is rapidly going up in smoke. That the ruling class will soon be unable to govern in their old style is all but certain—how long it takes for the socialisits here to actually build a movement capable of seizing state power is the main question

*Historically, this dynamic of the dollar for some, the sword for others has been generally drawn across racial/national lines. If we are to ever overcome this, it's important to understand both the cultural experience of this phenomenon, but also the abstract economic character which reveals the mechanism and motive.

[marxistlesbianist]

The revolutionary capacity of the US working class is presently inhibited by its material conditions . . . which as Marxists we all know are fixed and static, and which even small organizations of communists are completely incapable of deliberately changing

[marxistlesbianist]

Obviously idgaf about third-worlders ventposting about reactionary tendencies in the Amerikkkan proletariat, but I have no fucking patience for pessimism from people who could actually be organizing here. I can't think of a position more hospitable to our local bourgeoisie than "socialist organizing amongst the U.S. working class is pointless"

Stop making shitty excuses and get organized !!

[marxistlesbianist]

Being engaged politically with "leftists" soc dems is so fucking exhausting. I'm lurking in a server for them and someone got mad when their parents got described as petite bourgeoisie and tried to get the offender to take it back. The US is cooked beyond all repair.

Stop trying to engage politically with petite bourgeois kids and join an organization that actually does mass work within the proletariat!

Between the George Floyd uprisings of 2020, the 2024 student intifada, and the anti-ICE uprisings of 2025–6, this current decade has seen the sharpest increase in class struggle since the New Communist Movement of the 60s/70s—the decline of Amerikkkan imperialism is beginning to erode the material conditions which have set our local proletariat apart from the global working class, and people here are responding with a resurgent labor movement and more militant struggle around social issues. Nearly every socialist organization here is seeing rapid growth!

The whole country isn't "cooked beyind all repair"; you're generalizing from your experience in a frying pan

[txttletale]

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