But even conceding him his assertion, it would cut both ways, while he presses it only in one direction. If the amount of wages is a constant magnitude, then it can be neither increased nor diminished. If then, in enforcing a temporary rise of wages, the working men act foolishly, the capitalists, in enforcing a temporary fall of wages, would act not less foolishly. Our friend Offender does not deny that, under certain circumstances, the working men can enforce a rise of wages, but their amount being naturally fixed, there must follow a reaction. On the other hand, he knows also that the capitalists can enforce a fall of wages, and, indeed, continuously try to enforce it. According to the principle of the constancy of wages, a reaction ought to follow in this case not less than in the former.

The working men, therefore, reacting against the attempt at, or the act of, lowering wages, would act rightly. They would, therefore, act rightly in enforcing a rise of wages, because every reaction against the lowering of wages is an action for raising wages. According to Citizen Offender's own principle of the constancy of wages, the working men ought, therefore, under certain circumstances, to combine and struggle for a rise of wages. If he denies this conclusion, he must give up the premise from which it flows. He must not say that the amount of wages is a constant quantity, but that, although it cannot and must not rise, it can and must fall, whenever capital pleases to lower it. If the capitalist pleases to feed you upon potatoes instead of upon meat, and upon oats instead of upon wheat, you must accept his will as a law of political economy, and submit to it. If in one country the rate of wages is higher than in another, in the United States, for example, than in England, you must explain this difference in the rate of wages by a difference between the will of the American capitalist and the will of the English capitalist, a method which would certainly very much simplify, not only the study of economic phenomena, but of all other phenomena.

Woah nigga

Borzo you should stop writing in discord and start writing a book because holy shit that looks interesting

@Stalin I'm just quoting Marx man, currently reading the book

Book name?

But because Offender is literally making the same argument that Marx argued against, it is extremely relevant

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/value-price-profit.pdf @Stalin

Thanks m8 I am definitely reading this in my free time

👌

Got a hard copy too

Nice

>not in german/russian

Or at least chinese ffs

>Modern Chinese big revisionist though

The book is probably made in china tbh

Probably

>hurr china capitalist lets oppose it durr

What's wrong with that?

The goal, of communism is the abolition of ruling class and the class status

Most chinese copies are strongly edited tbh

因为是假的

China has a neo-fascist economy with just a marxian culture

yea oppose china

傻瓜老外

Plot twist, russia is actually going to be a SR but its waiting to china to be superpower

Fucking dumbass hows china fascist in any way

Do the “Stop Sado” challenge!
Everytime Sado post an image of a minor or Anime post any Soviet propaganda!

Tsar Putin must be overthrown

Yes

Putin is our next Stalin mates

@Parasitaxus cappie copy

>America big globalist

>american culture
You mean burgers, cowboys, hemingway and wallmart?

@Sado ask the actual fascist @Anakin Skywalker how china is fascist

I have no time to explain it

Oh how could i forget 6ix9ine

Nigga they be calling Stalin a fascist when they trying to make him look good

China's ultranationalism

The point system, if you go below it, you're never seen again

Economic imperialism