nowhere in my comment says “don’t read Marx”. It is rude for anyone on hexbear to assume that a fellow hexbear user would be saying “don’t read Marx”.

Yeah, that is not what I said at all. I just said your comment could be interpreted as that by a random person reading. In fact, I assumed you are not saying that, which is why I took the time to add that at the end.

I think it’s toxic for people to interpret comments as if they have malice

Which is exactly what you’re doing right now

Kind of a side note, but I think it’s important to point out that while they didn’t write about intellectual property and automation, Marx clearly defined the basis from which they came to develop, and that is essential to understanding both.

Laws are a manifestation of property relations, not the other way around. Intellectual property is a specific manifestation of the general private property that dictates capitalism. The phenomenon of music as commodity wasn’t as developed then, but the analysis of private property in general, which then dictates the specific forms of property, is all there.

Regarding automation, Capital Vol. 1 deals with the atomization of the work process leading into increasingly simplistic and specific actions, which lead to the creation of increasingly specific tools as we get to understand the processes better through practice and science. While this isn’t specifically about automation, it defines the process through which human development managed to substitute physical labor for machine labor over time. Machines were a specific form of it, automation is another, and AI might be a new one (that is particularly applicable to creative labor/commodity production).

I’m only pointing this out because your comment may read like “don’t bother reading Marx to understand these phenomena” for some

Wishing I had someone to develop the forces of production to the point of straining the property relations and bring about a period of intense social change with 🥺

Depending on the actual thing you’re considering, it’s putting the knowledge into practice and having a clear way of evaluating whether you’re failing

It feels like a specific form of the “decomposition” phenomenon laid down by Lenin in 1916, right? An inevitable development of imperialist economies

I’m pretty sure every weapon is “directed energy”

One of the biggest game changers in my life was when my therapist noticed this in me, cause I surely didn’t and still felt like I wasn’t trying hard enough

she’s still suffering a migraine

Even from the point of view of the assholes that wouldn’t wear masks, solving her migraine would have gotten her home by the hour and the situation would have been resolved for everyone

Me sowing (parasitizing third world countries for extracting capital): hahaha yes!

Me reaping (decomposing my productive state into a bloated financial institution): owiee nooo

Where can I read about this? I’m occasionally on a biology hyperfocus binge, gotta lay out the reading for the next one

Get’em boys! 🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖

Studying new types of policies and their effects? What could possibly be the use of that?

I don’t like the Jewish pogroms. However,

Every lib ever on the history of the XXth century

Startup announces the 24hour workday

Then get ashamed for how you acted

I’ll get that reaction immediately to almost any noise 🙉

Mostly if I’m already kinda stressed. If not, then it will take a few minutes of noise before I crack

When you’re a jewish man about to lose a war, but you helped arm, fund and expand the nazi presence in your country.

He’s probably never coming back to Ukraine after this trip tbh. It’s just a way to escape the nazis he nurtured without the bad PR

How is it defined? Usually understood by whom? Are you talking about abstract concepts or historical examples of “free markets” and their development?

Cartels and monopolies are the result of “free markets” btw. The strongest agents will organize to dominate and destroy the competitors however they can.

Yeah, I think some form of Anarchisms are the more-than-long goal for many places, but the early stages, with capitalists fighting to keep power, definately still need strong and organized defense forces, and a state is probably the best way of doing that.

The overabundance of essential resources that communism aims at will probably allow for groups of all sizes to organize as they wish/need