#meszaros

[probablyasocialecologist]

The primary goal of capitalist production is the valorization of capital above anything else. Capitalism is driven by the insatiable desire for profit-making and constantly increases the productive capacity. In contrast, in pre-capitalist societies production was conducted for the sake of satisfying concrete needs, and correspondingly the aim of production was use-values tied to the fulfilment of finite wants.

With the domination of this logic of capital for the sake of maximal valorization and the limitless expansion of capital, historically specific second-order mediation emerges by developing the world market, technologies, transportation and credit system, and artificial appetites. Capital wholly transforms and reorganizes the entire world as Mészáros argues:

Every one of the primary forms [of metabolism between humans and nature] is altered almost beyond recognition, so as to suit the self-expansionary needs of a fetishistic and alienating system of social metabolic control which must subordinate absolutely everything to the imperative of capital-accumulation.

Since there is no absolute limit in this process, capital is ‘totalizing’, continuously expanding and subordinating all aspects of the productive functions of both humans and nature to the imperative of capital accumulation.

Kohei Saito, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism

[krisztoforo]

[weil-weil-lautre]

Today there remain no significant areas of the planet to be encroached upon by the dominant capitalist powers. Neither by direct military imperialist invasion nor by newly instituted 'modernizing' economic domination. For the global ascendancy of capital described by Marx...is now complete, even if not in the idyllic form of 'globalization' glorified by its professional ideologues and 'hired prizefighters.' Capital now dominates and exploits our entire planet in every way it can, in the increasingly unstable form of its three-pronged destructiveness; but it can neither resolve nor suitably displace its structural antagonisms and explosive contradictions in the interest of untroubled capital-expansion and accumulation.

István Mészáros, Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness vol.II 27

[tartsdmegazaprot]

köszönjük szépen szekszárd ❤️🍷

[just-jezza-things]

Alig múlt dél, de Mészáros Lőrinc már két céggel és sok ezer hektárral gazdagodott

Az Átlátszó.hu számol be arról, hogy

a Búzakalász 66 Felcsút Kft. lett a többezer hektáron gazdálkodó Hidasháti Mg Zrt. közvetett tulajdonosa,

míg a Mészáros-közelinek tartott Opimus Group Nyrt. pedig visszavásárolta a Csabatáj Zrt.-t.

https://444.hu/2017/02/20/alig-mult-del-de-meszaros-lorinc-mar-ket-ceggel-es-sok-ezer-hektarral-gazdagodott

[weil-weil-lautre]

Monthly Review | The Uncontrollability of Globalizing Capital

We live in an age of unprecedented historical crisis. Its severity can be gauged by the fact that we are not facing a more or less extensive cyclic crisis of capitalism as experienced in the past…

We live in an age of unprecedented historical crisis. Its severity can be gauged by the fact that we are not facing a more or less extensive cyclic crisis of capitalism as experienced in the past, but the deepening structural crisis of the capital system itself. As such this crisis affects—for the first time ever in history—the whole of humankind, calling for quite fundamental changes to the way in which the social metabolism is controlled if humanity is to survive.

Constitutive elements of the capital system (like monetary and merchant capital, as well as original sporadic commodity production) go back thousands of years in history. However, for most of those thousands of years they all remained subordinate parts of the specific systems of social metabolic control which historically prevailed at the time, including the slave-owning and feudal modes of production and distribution. Only in the last few centuries, under the bourgeois capitalist form, could capital successfully assert its rule as an all-embracing “organic system.”

[krisztoforo]

[ioracle]

𝙰𝙲𝙲𝙴𝚂𝚂𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙵𝙸𝙻𝙴 . . . BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY 𝙳𝙴𝙲𝚁𝚈𝙿𝚃𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙼𝙴𝚂𝚂𝙰𝙶𝙴 » 𝙵𝚁𝙾𝙼 @meszaros i'm a man of my word.

❝ i've heard that one before. ❞ barbara is not scared. she does not cower in the face of someone who would use to her to get to others. the daughter of the commissioner, someone who's a known ally of the batman. she's been the target of many a plan to get to one or the other. most don't get this far. she's beaten them back before hands are even laid on her. so, in some twisted way, pyg gets some credit for that. still, it's frustrating to act helpless. to wait for a man to come save her, when she's perfectly capable of escaping herself. but it would be at too great a risk to her other identity.

gaze tries to take stock of her surroundings, but without her glasses it's mostly a blur. even if she could escape, she's got no idea where she is. perhaps the helplessness isn't so much an act, as a fact. her chair has already extended most of it's self - defence functions, her escrima sticks just out of reach with her hands bound. the only weapon she has left is her words. ❝ so, what's the plan now? ❞ eyes squint, trying to make out anything discernible, but it's no use. all she can see clearly is him. ❝ are we just going to wait for batman - assuming that he's even coming. ❞