reaper_cushions [he/him,comrade/them]

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Cake day: November 7th, 2020

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  • Also, Marx’ distinction of productive and unproductive labour isn’t a moral one, but rather a strictly material one. Marx distinguishes between productive and unproductive labour strictly along the lines of whether the product of said labour turns a profit for a capitalist. Thus, the exact same labour process with the exact same resulting product can be both productive or unproductive, its categorisation is entirely determined by whether the product is a commodity or simply remains a good.

    In your example, the barista making your coffee would be productive labour, whereas you making the coffee yourself would be classified as unproductive.











  • European Fascism doesn’t exactly require a whole lot of beating, this time around. In 1933, Germany had a large population of young people that could be fed into the meat grinder of the eastern front. Right now, all of Western Europe is facing an impending demographic catastrophe with incalculable consequences. Case and point: Germany’s strongest birth rates have been in the years of 1962 to 1965 with a pretty sharp decline and eventual stagnation around the mid 2000s. Retirement age in Germany is 65-67, thus in the waning years of this decade, Germany will face labour shortages it will not be able to accommodate. Now, imagine if fascists come to power in Germany and actually expel the quarter of the population that has a migration background (which, on average, is considerably younger than the “Bio-Deutsch” population). The country would be in ruin effectively immediately. This is no economic basis for a major military campaign on the scale of Operation Barbarossa.

    The situation is not much better in the rest of Western Europe.


  • Because their supposed moral superiority is so flagrantly undermined that they lash out. Genocide, to most people, is rather indefensible. If your cult leader is guilty of perpetrating/at the very least fully enabling and covering for it, it becomes rather clear that your support for them is not a moral or rational choice but rather, well, cultish. Most people do not like being confronted with their cognitive dissonances and thus act like this.







  • If I read the format correctly, it depicts the Greek character standing on a stack of books with the “Arab” standing on a pile of money, insinuating that the European’s high education/wisdom/whatever is superior to the “Arab’s” wealth. The fact that Ancient Greek philosophy was only passed down to post-medieval Europe by Arab/Ottoman scholars and that the Islamic world has a rich intellectual tradition that is in no way inferior to that of the European peoples was probably not considered in the inception of the underlying format.

    Tl;dr: It’s racist.