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What was yesterday undoubtedly labour-time socially necessary to the production of linen ceases to be so today, a fact which the owner of the money is only too eager to prove from the prices quoted by our friend's competitors. Unluckily for the weaver, people of his kind are in plentiful supply.
— Sep 15, 2026 08:17PM
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[B]ecause the objectivity of commodities as values is the purely 'social existence' of these things, it can only be expressed through the whole range of their social relations; consequently the form of their value must possess social validity.
— Sep 07, 2026 02:13PM
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...even when wages rise the needs of the workers as human beings are denied.
— Aug 28, 2026 08:01PM
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...the idea that any giant corporation, whatever its dimensions or power, could emanicipate itself definititively from the compulsion of (monopolistic) competition, that is, could have a guaranteed specific demand for its products, independently of the trade cycle and from technological innovation, could make sense only if it were insulated both from economic fluctuations and from economic uncertainty, that is if...
— Aug 27, 2026 08:02PM
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Attempt #11203 at making local human connections: local anarchist bookstore's in person year long group read, here we come.
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