#and we knew those were ads and we stayed conscious of their capitalist nature while continuing to enjoy them

[amiibo-king]

call me unorthodox or whatever but i think. get this. it MIGHT be possible.... to enjoy the barbie movie.... and ALSO acknowledge that it is a 2 hour long ad for mattel. wild i know

[radfem-gossip-archive-blog]

"Reserve army of labour is a concept in Karl Marx's critique of political economy.[1] It refers to the unemployed and under-employed in capitalist society. It is synonymous with "industrial reserve army" or "relative surplus population", except that the unemployed can be defined as those actually looking for work and that the relative surplus population also includes people unable to work. The use of the word "army" refers to the workers being conscripted and regimented in the workplace in a hierarchy, under the command or authority of the owners of capital. Marx did not invent the term "reserve army of labour". It was already being used by Friedrich Engels in his 1845 book The Condition of the Working Class in England.[2] What Marx did was theorize the reserve army of labour as a necessary part of the capitalist organization of work. Prior to what Marx regarded as the start of the capitalist era in human history (i.e. before the 16th century), structural unemployment on a mass scale rarely existed, other than that caused by natural disasters and wars.[3] In ancient societies, all people who could work necessarily had to work, otherwise they would starve; a slave or a serf by definition could not become "unemployed". There was normally very little possibility of "earning a crust" without working at all, and the usual attitude toward beggars and idlers was harsh.[4] Children began to work already at a very early age." another part: "Marx discusses the army of labor and the reserve army in Capital, Ch. 14, Counteracting Factors, Section IV. The Army of Labor consists in those working-class people employed in average or better than average jobs. Not every one in the working class gets one of these jobs. There are then four other categories where members of the working class might find themselves: the stagnant pool, the floating reserves, the latent reserve, and pauperdom. Finally, people may leave the army and the reserve army by turning to criminality, Marx refers to such people as lumpenproletariat.[8] The stagnant part consists of marginalised people with "extremely irregular employment". Stagnant pool jobs are characterized by below average pay, dangerous working conditions, they may be temporary. Those caught in the stagnant pool have jobs, so the modern definition of the employed would include both the army of labor plus the stagnant pool. However, they are constantly on the lookout for something better. The modern unemployed would refer primarily to the floating reserve, people who used to have good jobs, but are now out of work. They certainly hope that their unemployment is temporary ("conjunctural unemployment"), but they are well aware that they could fall into the stagnant pool or the pauper class. The latent part consists of that segment of the population not yet fully integrated into capitalist production. In Marx's day, he was referring to people living off of subsistence agriculture who were looking for monetary employment in industry. In modern times, people coming from slums in developing countries where they survive largely by non-monetary means, to developed cities where they work for pay might form the latent. Housewives who move from unpaid to paid employment for a business could also form a part of the latent reserve. They are not unemployed, because they are not necessarily actively looking for a job; but if capital needs extra workers, it can pull them out of the latent reserve. In this sense, the latent forms a reservoir of potential workers for industries. Pauperdom is where one might end up. The homeless is the modern term for paupers. Marx calls them people who cannot adapt to capital's never ending change. For Marx, "the sphere of pauperism", including those still able to work, orphans and pauper children, and the "demoralised and ragged" or "unable to work". Marx then analyses the reserve army of labour in detail, using data on Britain where he lived." tag: marxism 101 soooooo this is capitalism if Marx is right and I'm waiting for a radfem especially one who claims to be sex industry abolitionist to refute the *structural necessity of a permanent lumpen economy (i.e. sex industry) to capitalism* so feel free to send those my way for ex: adding doctors to the supply of doctors cant lower the cost of healthcare arbitrarily, especially wo industrial labor losing jobs due to automation and w wages of industrial labor staying the same across the board... bc doctors have a minimum cost of upkeep, their daily reproduction, if they have loans, that too, etc... not even going to address the rest of that joke post but since a self proclaimed marxist would respond like that: "while Sismondi, by contrast, emphasizes not only the encounter with the barriers, but their creation by capital itself, and has a vague intuition that they must lead to its breakdown. He therefore wants to put up barriers to production, from the outside, through custom, law etc., which of course, as merely external and artificial barriers, would necessarily be demolished by capital." https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch08.htm some radfem "marxist" thought this is a valid argument against unemployment being structural (ie necessary to the functioning of capitalism) which for some reason she's very obnoxiously sure isn't true... I knew there were no radfem marxists, every marxist knows unemployment is structural and foundational to capitalism... THIS IS LIKE THE BASIS OF MARX'S ANALYSIS OF CAPITALISM... HELLO? this is what she posted: "The factors that have destroyed well-paying industrial jobs were conscious policy, not abstract global trends. The United States has trade policies that were explicitly designed to put our manufacturing workers in direct competition with low-paid workers in places like Mexico, China, and Vietnam. This had the predictable effect of driving down their wages. We could have put in place a trade policy that made it as easy as possible for smart kids in the developing world to train to U.S. standards and work as doctors, lawyers, dentists and other highly paid professionals in the United States.This would have driven down the pay of these professionals and made items like health care much cheaper in the United States. This was a policy decision, not a global economic trend. There is also a policy to run a high unemployment budget. Congress has decided to run budgets that leave millions of people out of work rather than spending enough money to bring the economy close to full employment.” Dean Baker" anyway not going to pay attn to radfems anymore but I'll take arguments against marxism being the only politics of sex industry abolition in my inbox bc I really want to know what anti marxist and "marxist" radfems think they're doing when they oppose marxism or think they don't have to care how their goals interfere with marxism etc