I can sniff you from afar

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Cake day: November 9th, 2022

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  • Do you think they’ll just give up their power?

    No, they’ll use economic weapons (eg. scorched earth policy, sanctions, IMF structural adjustments), if not military force (eg. air bombs, drones, missiles), and propaganda campaigns, with their media structure, as we’ve seen in history before

    It’s not only just, but necessary, in many times









  • Nothing new for liberals… when their power is threatened by the working class of wage labor, from the 1848 revolution and around it, they critically support every reactionary force against them, in case they rise up…

    The bourgeois republic triumphed. On its side stood the aristocracy of finance, the industrial bourgeoisie, the middle class, the petty bourgeois, the army, the lumpen proletariat organized as the Mobile Guard, the intellectual lights, the clergy, and the rural population. On the side of the Paris proletariat stood none but itself. More than three thousand insurgents were butchered after the victory, and fifteen thousand were deported without trial.

    Remember especially, in monarchist countries like those in Europe, many capitalists that derived from the pre-capitalist landed aristocracy and aristocracy of finance in feudalism, besides the monarchy, still predominate…








  • Not necessarily

    I mean, the constant capital for coffee has been made, and as I think you should know, here, it’s a battle for surplus value, over who gets more, the capitalist or the barista wage laborer, and I don’t think there’s much more innovation you can do with coffee making much to reduce constant capital value via reduction of its reproduction in labor time (yet; it takes a lot of labor time and money to innovate and supersede labor, in comparison to just maintaining the cafe capitalist system as is)

    (I’m assuming you’ve read Value, Profit and Price)

    That being said, while separate, both the struggles of the coffee farmer and barista can be interrelated and fought hand in hand, with solidarity from global north to south…