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Old fashioned Marxist 🗽

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Old fashioned Marxist 🗽

@laborrepublican

𝘌 𝘱𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘪 𝘮𝘶𝘰𝘷𝘦.

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Old fashioned Marxist 🗽
@laborrepublican
May 19
My contribution to the "should you read Capital first" discourse: I do not recommend reading the Paris Manuscripts until well after you are well versed in the works of Marx and Engels. Generally, I don't recommend reading any posthumous and incomplete texts until you have a
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Old fashioned Marxist 🗽
@laborrepublican
Mar 19, 2024
Replying to @EndWokeness
You're complaining about a judge protecting the Second Amendment?
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@laborrepublican
Aug 7, 2025
"Nothing can be more dangerous for young people than to know the names of things, but not their real meaning." - Lenin
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@laborrepublican
Mar 11, 2024
The workers don't know how to operate the machines they use...at work?
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@laborrepublican
Jan 31, 2024
Replying to @tsarnick
Yeah, you only like garbage because you were fed garbage your whole life. You'll have to develop discipline to overcome that shortcoming.
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Old fashioned Marxist 🗽
@laborrepublican
May 20, 2025
Replying to @jacobin
Materialism is not "the view that human agents tend to act on their objective interests", not in the slightest! The daft summary in the OP doesn't even capture the "mechanical materialism" that preceded historical materialism. It is just nonsense. Historical materialism is the
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Old fashioned Marxist 🗽
@laborrepublican
Jan 15, 2024
Replying to @strike_dr
It is not a "capitalist myth", it is an integral element of the capitalist mode of production. It is not a "justification" of the tendency of wages to fall to the minimum level, it is an explanation of this tendency: by appropriating the capacity to organize and direct the labor
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@laborrepublican
Nov 3, 2023
Replying to @MattLech
She's been surprisingly good and consistent on this issue, really made me reevaluate what I thought of her.
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@laborrepublican
Oct 27, 2023
Replying to @gabagoolmarx
I'm starting to second guess this whole "freedom of speech" thing
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@laborrepublican
Sep 1, 2024
Replying to @gdmorejon
No. Capital is the collective activity of the working class, confronting the workers as an alien force dominating them from without. Hence the demonic characterizations. It is not just some rich guys; they are servants of this self-contradictory production process, not its
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@laborrepublican
Jun 27, 2025
Anti-Americanism is reactionary.
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@laborrepublican
Dec 13, 2023
In case it isn't clear yet, Trump is the most left-wing candidate in this race by any meaningful standard.
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@laborrepublican
Sep 17, 2025
Replying to @cafreiman
Marx does not deny that capitalism leads to an increasing material standard of living.
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Old fashioned Marxist 🗽
@laborrepublican
Dec 1, 2023
Replying to @ProjectLiberal
Tell me you don't understand liberalism without telling me.
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