Nagarjuna

can i get a Mao sandwich hold the Deng, with some of those Graeber fries

Throw in the Situationist International and Midnight Notes and this is just my politics

I agree, they are, but Graeber's the type of dude to prioritize making a playful argument over making a rigorous one. Debt has a whole chapter arguing that Muslim banking is better than European Banking because it obeys Abrahamic usury laws. He then included a footnote basically saying "I know it's still capitalist, I mostly wrote this chapter to troll evangelicals."

Like, he has brilliant insights, but not necessarily brilliant analysis. Take him as a supplement to your theory, not your main meal.

He is, read Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value.

This analysis isn't wrong, it's just partial. There's stuff like labor exploitation, gendered hyperexploitation, etc. But there's also something where desirable jobs have less bargaining power because the labor pool is flooded (Firefighters are an example of this). Graeber's argument is a non-structural articulation of the same phenomena. In the case of teachers, the amount we pay them is very much a decision made fairly arbitrarily. It's mostly a matter of public investment, the decisions around which are massively over-determined to the point where you do have to talk about things like subconscious decision-making and cultural values.

If your issue is with taking the subconscious into account in your analysis, then you're putting yourself in opposition to incredibly influential Marxists like Adorno.

So, when you see these kinds of articles, they're usually the result of some really savvy organizing.

Union staff will develop relationships with reporters, and then when they need a story like this, they'll media train a few workers or consumers, put together a fact sheet so that a reporter can pump out an article quickly, and then turn this over to a journalist who turns it into an article rather than do their own research.

It's a way of leveraging journalists' position as workers with quotas and limited time.

The reason unions go after companies like Starbucks or REI is because of their progressive image. They tend to attract union-friendly employees, and have a brand that's very vulnerable to these kinds of media attacks. When they do what every single company does and union bust, it ends up biting them in the ass. I

Yeah, you're only allowed to care about important things. All media is banned except for post war italian cinema reflecting on fascism and revolution

The moral here is that you should steal the plagiarist's videos and pass them off as your own.

I don't believe in cops, bosses, or politicians. Some call that Anarchism, I call it having a heart that fucking beats.

Ooh, do mine

It could have been a 30 minute expose, but instead, he pulled out a folder full of receipts and just started reading them verbatim into the camera.

Small timers who own a bunch of houses. Failsons who got daddy's apartment but never put any work into it since it's basically a free money machine.

IMO, this is why the IWW has victories at notoriously un-organizable shops like Starbucks, Target, Whole Foods, and Fast Food. It's the approach of showing what a union is before making it legally official, and prioritizing direct action over a legal contract.

SEIU took a lot of notes from the Burgerville campaign (and in fact, some of the IWW external organizers were also SEIU staff) when they started their Starbucks drive, and it's one of the most successful drives into fast food in recent history.

I would really love to see what would happen if an org like the Portland IWW had the dues base and ambition of a union like SEIU. Unfortunately, we're pathologically afraid of closed shops and staff organizers so that will never happen.

The bartenders I know ask for cash if possible, don't report their tips, and then photoshop their paystubs to reflect their actual income when they apply for rentals.