Ok I'm still reading Critique of the Gotha Program (I've also been reading a lot of definitions for terms on marxists.org and doing other stuff). I know I will probably sound like an idiot when talking about this stuff but can someone help me out here.

I'm pretty sure something about this text I've typed out is wrong (probably capitalists making commodities rare through control of the means of production, maybe I'm even confusing 'value' for 'use-value') but I don't know *why* I'm wrong. I feel really stupid because I haven't studied economics in depth since school so forgive me if this sounds really dumb.

>The use-value of an item generally doesn't increase.
>Capital is money that is used to buy a commodity and resell it at a higher value.
>Normally value only increases when items are rare.
>However through capitalists owning the means of production for the commodity they can artificially make this item rare and increase it's value.

I feel like a baby taking my first steps into the world lol

holy shit you think gotha is baby steps

yeah lol

I get a lot of it

But I think maybe I'm trying to go too fast.

most people dont read past manifesto

Really what I typed out didn't even come up from Gotha. It came from me reading stuff on marxists.org.

yeah

I can't even imagine being a borderline illiterate peasant 100 years ago and trying to understand this stuff lol

although the commodity isnt always resold at a higher value

well the thing about communism is that something like it would have occured anyway just as marx predicted

class antagonisms are inherent in capitalism

heres a good summary of capitalism as a system proposed by marx

oh shit thanks

remember that a crises can occur if anyone of these functions fails in some way

with ramifications down the line

Man this picture is exactly what I've wanted

I've been contemplating drawing the relations between all these things out on some paper but this picture already did it for me (and it did it in an accurate way unlike how I would have done it).

Is that image from a youtube video?

It sort of looks like it from the red line at the bottom.

"free gifts of nature "

lmao

this is so cringe

also vallue increases or decrease with the workers productivity

When you say "sold at a higher vallue" you exluse vallue increase, when you handle someting transport package etc , the vallue increases

that image exludes propaganda cost and social engineering cost

https://discord.gg/Z2R2X3u

I am a ponywoof!

Prove it

I will personally see to it that cloppers cease to exist

sup neerrdsss

Though it might be expensive your remains will then be liquefied and launched into space with enough velocity to escape orbit

Tainted clopper atoms must be removed from the cycle of life altogether

ur mom

@tim

Wtffffffffff

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https://www.numbers-stations.com/articles/soviet-and-russian-invasions-since-1917/

Soviet imperialism?