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i haven't time to do justice to this, but i'll just note that what separates the logic of the first part of pan's post from loquitor's really is a politics of wealth creation. in the land of neoliberalism, it is a commonplace to claim that capital creates value. in the land of social-democracy (loosely speaking) it is the expenditure of labor power that creates value (working people, reduced to the bearers of labor power via capitalist wage relations)---this split is amongst the oldest ideological conflicts within and about capitalism.
at the descriptive level, there's an obvious symbiosis at work.
at the political level, that i have a marxist side indicates where i think the emphasis should fall.
gd: afl cio?
sector monopoly trade unions?
the worst possible model for thinking about organization of working folk.
but as we now know, it's organization and is better than contemporary powerlessness.
but still....
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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