Mastodawn

🔹 Mode of production (eg capitalism or feudalism)
(equals) =
relations (between classes)
(plus) +
forces (= means + workers)
Dialectical relationship: they influence each other.

🔹 Commodities and the labour theory of value. I thought this was a lot of words to say that labour adds value, and that surplus value comes from the power of labour through underpayment. Workers are paid the minimum amount that is necessary for them to show up the next day and work again.

What I didn't understand fully: labour adds value, okay, labour turns a bunch of wool into a hat so that is clearly added value. However, scarcity (whether real or perceived) also adds value, no? So what does Marx say about this? Does sentimental value have a place in Marxism?

🔹 "socially necessary labour time". If an average person needs one hour to repair a car, one hour is going to be the price paid. A slower person doesn't get more money. Quantification of labour through xyz is unfair.

#Labour #marxism #surplusvalue #commodities

PugJesus Apr 5

Proletariat of the Hill

PugJesus Apr 5

Proletariat of the Hill

Egberto Willies Apr 4

Caller Defends Billionaires as Host Exposes Worker Exploitation Truth

A heated call exposes how workers defend billionaires while being underpaid. This breakdown reveals the truth about wages, labor value, and economic conditioning.

#billionaires #capitalism #corporateGreed #EconomicInequality #EconomicJustice #fairWages #laborRights #ProgressivePolitics #surplusValue #unions #WealthGap #workerExploitation https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oNG

PugJesus Mar 13

"NOBODY WANTS TO WORK" - People who literally don't work for a living

🆃🅷🅴 🅳🆄🅳🅴™Mar 11

Like how Coca-Cola makes a profit off the labor of farmers and workers, capitalists extract surplus value from the working class. #SurplusValue #ClassStruggle #Marxist #Capitalism101

CPIM Puducherry Feb 27

உபரி மதிப்பு’ (Surplus Value)

மார்க்சியத்தின் இதயப்பகுதியான ‘உபரி மதிப்பு’ (Surplus Value) தத்துவத்தைப் பற்றிப் பார்ப்போம். கார்ல் மார்க்ஸ் தனது ‘மூலதனம்’ (Das Kapital) நூலில், முதலாளித்துவத்தில் தொழிலாளர்கள் எப்படிச் சுரண்டப்படுகிறார்கள் என்பதைப் பொருளாதார ரீதியாக நிரூபித்த இடமே இதுதான். இதை மிக எளிமையாகப் பின்வரும் நிலைகளில் புரிந்துகொள்ளலாம்: 1. பயன்பாட்டு மதிப்பும் பரிவர்த்

https://pycpim.in/surplus-value/

#Profit #SurplusValue #உபரிமதிப்பு #உழைப்புச்சக்தி

உபரி மதிப்பு’ (Surplus Value) – இந்திய கம்யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சி (மார்க்சிஸ்ட்)

மார்க்சியத்தின் இதயப்பகுதியான 'உபரி மதிப்பு' (Surplus Value) தத்துவத்தைப் பற்றிப் பார்ப்போம். கார்ல் மார்க்ஸ் தனது 'மூலதனம்' (Das Kapital) நூலில், முதலாளித்துவத

இந்திய கம்யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சி (மார்க்சிஸ்ட்)

John Sep 6, 2025

#Boeing hiring replacements: What we do is a skilled trade. For him to bring in unskilled labor, it's dangerous... the announcement is a tactic to divide the #union.

https://www.stlpr.org/economy-business/2025-09-05/boeing-hiring-replacement-workers-is-dangerous-striking-union-members-say

#unions #strike #strikes #Berkeley #DanGillian #StCharles #Mascoutah #HealthCare #HealthInsurance #SurplusValue #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar

Boeing hiring replacement workers is ‘dangerous,’ striking union members say

Union workers on the picket line said they don’t believe the company will be able to find skilled workers to replace them.

STLPR

John Aug 28, 2025

https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/2025/08/28/uaw-strike-ge-aerospace-cincinnati/85859331007/

#GE's #CEO earns more than CEOs of #Ford, #GM, and #Stellantis combined, forcing employees to pay 36% more in #HealthCare. Profits in billions, would cost $4 million to cover all of #GEAerospace premiums

#UAW #strike #strikes #union #unions #Cincinnati #Evendale #Ohio #LarryCulpJr #LarryCulp #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar #SurplusValue

UAW on strike: More than 640 GE Aerospace workers in Cincinnati take to picket line

About 640 workers are striking at GE Aerospace facilities in Ohio, where they make and distribute machinery for clients including the U.S. Navy.

Detroit Free Press

John Aug 28, 2025

Motorcycle employees on #strike in #Philippines. #Kawasaki earned P35 billion while labor cost was at P300 million. Management claims it can't afford 10.5% increase.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/2101730/motorcycle-union-goes-on-100th-day-of-strike-for-living-age

#strikes #union #unions #KULU #KMPC #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar #SurplusValue

Motorcycle firm union marks 100th day of strike for ‘living wage’

MANILA, Philippines — The union of a well-known motorcycle company said it is continuing its fight for a “living wage,” reaching the 100th day of its labor strike on Thursday. Last May

INQUIRER.net