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[gav-san]

My pics turned out to be significantly less raunchy then I remembered…

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@gav-san

If shanks gonna be an obsessive prick he at least deserves a nonchalant boss babe 💅

[ltwilliammowett]

Red sails off Greenland

[marxistcomedy]

The term commodity fetishism objectively should bring to mind the way economic actors, both rich and poor, declare themselves powerless before the pressures exerted by the world of commodities (“I’m sorry I have to fire you, but the market told us your services aren’t needed”). It’s conceptually quite similar to Adam Smith’s much-celebrated liberal notion of “the invisible hand of the market,” but rather than benevolent and wise Marx invites us to see this system as a sinister cult. The term commodity fetishism was never meant to scold people for liking material things; it’s not meant to generate guilt after the realization that one craves certain consumer goods (“I’m so bad, but those new shoes sure look pretty”).

Commodity fetishism describes the objective fact that in capitalism we don’t generally relate to each other as humans asking each other to do things, but rather indirectly command each other through commodities. If I go to a restaurant, I don’t beg the cook to make me a meal and the waiter to deliver it, nor do I imperiously threaten them with violence, nor do I cajole them into it. I just buy the meal. The meal itself then appears to command them to move, like a little god! And I in turn must similarly follow the commands of commodities in order to acquire the money to purchase such meals. This is how the factory comes to want to be used, and how the tropical fruit comes to want to find its way to Stockholm. As Marx puts it:

“To [producers], their own social action takes the form of the action of objects, which rule the producers instead of being ruled by them.”

From this perspective, one of the central tasks of communists is to liberate workers not from work or desire itself, but from a generalized lack of decision-making agency in the face of crude economic fetishism. People should decide what people do, not commodities! Looking for alternatives to enslavement by commodities, some look back to feudal, religious, and romantic patriarchal forms of despotism, but socialists look ahead, towards socialism’s multidimensional interaction and negotiation, demotic and democratic.

Commodity Fetishism

Commodity fetishism is the observation that through many small separate acts of market exchange we command each other to behave in very spec

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David Bowie –Red Sails

[justaneondream]

[steampunkdepot]

[cinematic-literature]

Le vele scarlatte (2022) by Pietro Marcello

The film opens with a quote from the novel it's been adapted from - Алые паруса (Scarlet Sails in English; 1923) by the Russian author Aleksandr Grin.

It can be translated as

We can make the so-called miracles happen with our own hands.