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It's always gotta be "Marx didn't consider [thing discussed in the literal first chapter of Capital]" too. Like literally every single time without exception.
That or "marx is responsible for the death of millions" lmao yeah alright buddy marx personally engineered the holodromer whatever you say
"I bet Marx couldn't have foreseen..." Then they list some new thing. Sometimes if you're really lucky they just talk about consumer products.
Actually nothing about airplanes, TV, the internet, smart phones, or the Hot Pocket patented microwaveable crisping sleeve have invalidated his summary of capitalism.
"Marx could not explain why kids love ["breakfast cereal" that is literally just cookies, you're feeding them literal fucking cookies for a meal]!"
Did you know they stopped including that? Probably allowed them to shave a couple pennies off their costs. They tell you to microwave it if you don't care that it'll be squishy or air fry it if you want it crispy. There's probably a critique of capital rolled in there.
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Never crisped
MARXISTS HATE THIS ONE TRICK!!
I remember seeing a debate online during and post-COVID about automating service jobs with robots and AI and seeing people online doing the whole "Marx didn't predict this!!" routine. I'm like, Marx predicted it as close to someone in the 1800s possibly could have.
And to that end:
This is literally what some Trump admin goon was saying on TV a few weeks ago. "Well the factories will have robots in them but we'll need people to maintain the robots!"
Marx caps that off with:
Not only that, but they are really telling on themselves and their lack of understanding of industrial history (not that we are actually taught any of that at any point).
Automation has been a thing since literally the 1780's when Oliver Evans created the first completely automated flour mill. The principles of automation on smaller levels of have been understood for even longer that.
Marx didn't even need to predict it, it was already something that existed and therefore needed to be accounted for as a possibly technological progression for his theory. If anything, part of his theory was explaining why it wasn't more prevalent!
Exactly. That's why I'm constantly yelling at people
that Marx isn't doing some kind of esoteric theological analysis. Don't mystify it! He's logically looking at the dominant mode of production, identifying the internal contradictions, and critiquing it.
He does do some level of discussion of that around the transformation of value to price. But what he is basically talking about is how the capitalist mystifies the process of that transformation, and thereby makes it appear natural, and in doing so, cuts himself a profit. In the same way, he also discusses the idea of fetishization of commodities and the commoditization of people.
In doing so though, he is not discussing esoteric processes. These are everyday processes that occur all the time.