Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
[Karl Marx]
I’d be interesting in hearing any defence of what I believe is indefensible.
I’d love the few paragraphs preceding that.
The sentence makes sense on its own, and i agree with it, but I’d love the surrounding context.
Here you go, it’s in chapter 10 section 4, p175: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-I.pdf
The commodity fetishism one?
Man I read this exact passage a long time ago in my intro to social theory seminar:
I’ll be honest, I just looked it up and shared the link (E: and in case you didn’t notice, am not the op of the thread), I’m no good with texts that long so have never read the entire thing, though I have left the link open to read through at least this part once I have my cuppa, and have bookmarked the pdf for future reference, so I might have to get back to you on that 😁
Ah thanks for the edit, it helps, because there are a lot of section 4’s
Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.
Same thing really but I really like Fishers incorporation of zombies
Good, why could they not have also done this with the ferries though?
AFAIK it was due to the slightly weird jurisdiction that ships fall under due to moving between countries.
Sorta. Legal jurisdiction on a ship is the nation it is registered in. IE its flag nation.
Shipping companies etc register ships in nations that give them advantages legally.
Then hilariously enough mark ownership. In different nations as the 2 are not related. This allows tax advantages.
I do love it when a big company has to spend hundreds of thousands on Barristers fees AND loses.
Getting fees out of clients is like getting blood out of a stone.
Those barristers may not get paid by Tesco for years & not without a fight - they’re prohibited from taking retainers and from turning down cases, and though they can refer cases on to other barristers, the circumstances in which they can do this are very limited.
Except it’s Tesco so they’ll just raise the price of bread and milk or something to cover it
True. +1p on bananas would probably cover it in a fortnight
