Kolibri

I was kind of thinking about like the end of section three. Mainly with this part

as soon as they discover that the degree of intensity of the competition among themselves depends wholly on the pressure of the relative surplus population; as soon as, by Trades’ Unions, &c., they try to organise a regular co-operation between employed and unemployed in order to destroy or to weaken the ruinous effects of this natural law of capitalistic production on their class, so soon capital and its sycophant, Political Economy, cry out at the infringement of the “eternal” and so to say “sacred” law of supply and demand. Every combination of employed and unemployed disturbs the “harmonious” action of this law.

but why isn't like organization of the unemployed not talk about much compared to like organization of the employed in today's time? since both each play a role with like the accumulation of capital. and what would organization of the unemployed mean or look like? or like that regular co-operation between employed and unemployed

the only closet idea I have of like that and to what Marx said. Is like, when it comes to strikes, organized workers not wanting anyone to be scabs?

I learned about technical and organic composition of capital. Since I never heard of that before until like a few days ago, it's really new to me

hehehehehehe, losing my mind. my dad was passed out on on his chair.. again. but he was fine. anyways he woke up. and I thought he was going to bed. since this is pretty normal. instead.. he asks if I wanted to go to the store.. at midnight... because he thought we needed something? and he was ready to head out. but like he slowly realized that like. it's midnight and that we don't need anything..

and... heheheheheheheheheheheeh. I'm just gonna turn to my spiritual beliefs now if I don't want to get all self harm like or something on myself. but I certainty do want to cry

It is scary, its just like. How could they pretend that like nothing just happened? Like morgues being full that like freezer trucks have to be used. My mom worked in a part of healthcare. She saw what happened before dying last year from other stuff. Meanwhile like, my siblings? They downplay covid, refusing to even get vaccinated, and just like... It angers me. Especially since like my mom saw what covid did, and my mom tried encouraging my siblings to get vaccinated and take it seriously. But they just dismissed her after like the stuff she's seen. She also caught covid herself to a few times to and it got bad at a few points.

and I just don't know how. How do people ignore all this stuff or pretend like nothing happened?

It is done and now I can sleeeeeeeeeeeeeep

Chapter 25 and its first three sections are also really good. Can't say I heard anyone talk about like value composition or like technical and organic composition of capital before? So that's really new. I found these really interesting

. As simple reproduction constantly reproduces the capital relation itself, i.e., the relation of capitalists on the one hand, and wage workers on the other, so reproduction on a progressive scale, i.e., accumulation, reproduces the capital relation on a progressive scale, more capitalists or larger capitalists at this pole, more wage workers at that. The reproduction of a mass of labour power, which must incessantly re-incorporate itself with capital for that capital’s self-expansion; which cannot get free from capital, and whose enslavement to capital is only concealed by the variety of individual capitalists to whom it sells itself, this reproduction of labour power forms, in fact, an essential of the reproduction of capital itself. Accumulation of capital is, therefore, increase of the proletariat.

Also I really like Marx going into centralization and along with clarifying differences between centralization and like concentration. Since I had some like misunderstandings over that? But Marx cleared it up. Thinking like, centralization was tied to concentration. But Marx made it cleared it's not. Also this sounded like financial capitalism?

Apart from this, with capitalist production an altogether new force comes into play — the credit system, which in its first stages furtively creeps in as the humble assistant of accumulation, drawing into the hands of individual or associated capitalists, by invisible threads, the money resources which lie scattered, over the surface of society, in larger or smaller amounts; but it soon becomes a new and terrible weapon in the battle of competition and is finally transformed into an enormous social mechanism for the centralization of capital.

Marx also like had a really big footnote in this chapter with Malthus. Also like going to the periods and cycles of capitalism along with like the industrial reserve army. Really reminded me of how important dialectical materialism is for this. And speaking of misunderstandings, I think I had a misunderstanding from like the last few chapters with population where Marx also cleared it up when talking about the reserve army. Not entirely just the seeking of more people, but more like, the composition of like active and reserve army. Along with how like, that technical composition of capital, where like. Constant capital grows more while variable capital is less as capital wants to employ lesser people, or use overwork.

Along with this, it reminded me how much of like, how machinery is a form of class warfare like Marx mentioned before? I also really like the ending to section 3. that ill just quote here in a spoiler tag, since it's big. But like it just really good. And it's a nice thing to end the week off on.

I'm really sleepy since I only slept like 3 hours yesterday and Marx like, literally almost put me to sleep. Im trying to get that weekly reading done, but oh my god. I'm like ready to pass out. but if I don't get it done now, I'm def. not gonna get it done this weekend.

I found section 4 and 5 of ch. 24 interesting. Especially in terms of like trying to think about imperialism a bit? Like the end of section 5 feels like it lays down foundations again for the development of imperialism later on? With this part

An uncommonly knowing dodge this. It did not prevent Mr. Fawcett saying in the same breath:

“The aggregate wealth which is annually saved in England, is divided into two portions; one portion is employed as capital to maintain our industry, and the other portion is exported to foreign countries... Only a portion, and perhaps, not a large portion of the wealth which is annually saved in this country, is invested in our own industry. 55]

The greater part of the yearly accruing surplus-product, embezzled, because abstracted without return of an equivalent, from the English labourer, is thus used as capital, not in England, but in foreign countries. But with the additional capital thus exported, a part of the “labour fund” invented by God and Bentham is also exported.

and like going to section 4. The part talking about food and like adulteration and stuff. Reminded me of like today with the IMF. Where they dont want countries to be self sufficient and make their own food.

also I found this really interesting

This gratuitous service of past labour, when seized and filled with a soul by living labour, increases with the advancing stages of accumulation.

and

The powerful and ever-increasing assistance given by past labour to the living labour process under the form of means of production is, therefore, attributed to that form of past labour in which it is alienated, as unpaid labour, from the worker himself, i.e., to its capitalistic form. The practical agents of capitalistic production and their pettifogging ideologists are as unable to think of the means of production as separate from the antagonistic social mask they wear today, as a slave-owner to think of the worker himself as distinct from his character as a slave.

makes me think about just like. how massive all that past labor must be today, all over the world. like more then gigantic than like Marx's time, it's hard to even imagine? that it feels a little incomprehensible to even think about all that past labor that helps make up this world today.

Its really nice to finally be able to start opening windows because it's not cold as hell. It just nice hearing the outside, and like hearing all that outside noise like birds going wild. or squirrels doing their thing.

It is very rude and inappropriate. Especially with like calling those who believe in magic "deeply unserious" or calling Vampire a "putz". Meanwhile like Vampire is the reason I'm even reading Das Kapital since they manage/started that bookclub for that.