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Melody - Engels and the Dialectics of Nature

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Capital Volume Two - The Capitalist vs the Capitalist

This is how the capitalist fleeces the worker. On paper, this looks like a perfectly equitable legal exchange here. I pay you X number of dollars for your time. And in return, you get to live in your shitty little apartment and have the privilege of coming back to work at my shoe factory six days a week for 10 hours a day. It's not like this direct theft, but it is theft. The possessor of money does find on the market such a special commodity and capacity for labor, labor, labor power. That really just starts what could be a whole other episode. Right. Is there anything Cooper or Melody, do you want to say anything else as we start

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