In Russia we also have hyper-super-mega exploitation, where migrant workers are not only paid less than the norm, but also may have a part of their salary docked by corrupt businessmen or bureaucrats for tax purposes. For example, the city of Moscow may have a contract to pay a migrant 50000 rubles to work as a street sweeper, but in reality his direct employer pays him 35000 and pockets the rest. On the surface everything seems legitimate, hiding this super-exploitation. It's also one of the reasons employers don't hire Russian citizens, who aren't as easy to exploit using this particular trick. Naturally this all creates a lot of tensions between migrants (who think of Russians as exploiters) and Russians (who think of migrants as someone taking their jobs).
@@CarterSimon777 smol computers in every workplace, mid sized computers in every district planing center and One BIg ole Computery per Republic + Dunkelhase/ Cockshott or Cybernertical planing model = Austrians Nightmare
I always find the thesis of the Economic Calculation Problem weird. It was proposed in 1920 so... before any actual consolidated results of socialist experiments, and then... and then, even when doing calculus on pen and paper, the soviets somehow managed a huge productivity gain, waste reduction, growth rate and gain of life expectancy. Whichever problem there was on calculation, it still seemed to be doing a lot better by attempting calculus, without even using computers and cybernetics, than by not attempting the calculation at all.
thank you for your work, im a total marx newbie but going to begin reading capital so was wondering if theres a specific edition/translation i should look for and if any intro reading would be useful
Great to hear that you're taking on Capital! It is challenging at times, but indispensable to read carefully and understand. The version published by Penguin is totally fine. On translations (I say this as someone who has read all three volumes plus several other major works): I don't think the nuances in translation are particularly important for newcomers to the material. There are some "Marxologists" out there who swear by the importance and I do understand that certain subtleties are lost from German to English, but as a beginner I think it is your job to simply engage with the major principles in the texts. Those are not going to be very different across the various translations. My rule of thumb is: pick whatever is most accessible to you, in terms of price / shipping / physical location. Intro reading: An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital by Michael Heinrich or Companion to Marx's Capital by David Harvey People have argued for and against these types of texts, but I think they can be useful if you need some guidance / additional explanations. I understand the concerns though. If you read these works before or during your exposure to the original text, they might prevent your own interpretation developing. I don't think this is a big problem for beginners though -- the main point is getting into the text and doing your best with the concepts. Marx's own work, "Value, Price, and Profit" and "Wage Labour and Capital" are smaller texts that could help out with comprehension. If you don't have prior experience reading these older, technical works, just focus on getting through it with as much attention as possible to the main arguments. Some stuff won't make sense because it's very specific to questions/issues of Marx's time. Feel free to get in touch via email if you run into any questions as you read (I can't promise to be very quick with responses though): themarxistproject [@] gmail [.] com
i really appreaciate you taking the time, your guidance and understanding is a massive help. ill be sure to reach out if i run up against anything too unwieldy and i dont mind about response time, your upload schedule has taught me to be very patient. but in all seriousness as long as you keep doing the work ill keep watching and learning! take care, left is best
I would read Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels first, it is very short and touches on some of the main contradictions of the capitalist system that Marx touches upon in Capital, as well as briefly discussing surplus value. It also offers a clear distinction between the utopian socialism and scientific socialism (marxism), which is an important difference to take into account when reading Marx and Engels, who spent much of their writing making polemics against utopian socialists like Proudhon and Durring. These debates are still important today, as the left (especially in the global north) is infected with many utopian tendencies (Anarchism, Co-op Socialism, Social Democracy, etc.) Good luck comrade!
Michael Roberts talks about this and doesn't outright reject the idea of super-exploitation, but offers reasoning that it is not the main source of surplus value. There's several posts on his blog about this specifically and debating John Smith's "Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century". I think its more convincing to say it's a temporary thing that happens, but it either can not be sustained or the value of labor power permanently changes for that nation, becoming normal exploitation.
@@injusticeanywherethreatens4810 There's "Once more on unequal exchange" video by him & "The so-called Unequal Exchange" as well. There's two other videos on the topic I believe on his channel. I would also suggest "The Economics of Modern Imperialism" DOI:10.1163/1569206X-12341959 I think both agree on that any difference is due to difference in technology first and foremost. However, there are differences in the conclusions they both draw.
Indeed, we must give the system total control of our lives so they can prove history wrong and be the first ones to not massacre its people. Pure genius, comrade!
Very interesting concept, thank you. I see some parallels with rising consumer prices vs shrinkflation. Instead of increasing the price of a consumer good with a set quantity as it happens in normal inflation - say, a 500 ml carton of milk - what happens is that the price remains the same but the quantity is reduced, with the carton of milk now actually having 450 or 400 ml. The effect is the same of course: bigger profit margins for the capitalist.
My critique of the concept of a labour aristocracy is around the idea that Lenin wasn't that serious about it, as it seems he made a generalization about something he noticed but didn't have a better way to explain by that time, that's why he didn't went further into it, if so he would've noticed a similar scenario with minorities in general, which he actually acknowledged about domestic work and the situation of the women in the working class, but not in that regard. Take into account that I'm from the global south, I'm not defending the north or the reactionary views within part of their working class, but if you consider what a aristocracy means, materialistic speaking isn't possible to be a labour aristocrat, dialectly speaking is not ass sound too, because is too broad to be, in the end the truth is just the same old international division of labor, if you consider the consumption part of it, which some people call it as the "consumerist sphere", a part of the working class dedicated to buy stuff more than produce stuff, so they exist as a way to guarantee the ongoing super exploitation, not by being aristocrats, but rather by being alienated to the point of living towards consumerism.
Question: If I work for a company in the global North & they year on year refuse to put my salary up in line with inflation such that I end up living on savings to at least in part pay my monthly bills, am I being super-exploited, or just plain old exploited?
5:38 ¡México mencionado! Como mexicano, no solo lo puedo respaldar, sino detallar. La propia forma de vida más barata y los productos de la canasta básica costando menos que en Europa, garantiza que las bajas pagas dadas por las empresas de mencionado continente, no sean vistas tan mal, pues en comparación, se gasta menos por más, sin embargo, ésto no es garantizado en todas las regiones, especialmente (e irónicamente) en la zona norte, que es también donde más se concentran dichas empresas (n de empresas de cierto producto en el estado / n de empresas total en el estado). Además, éso solo es para algunos recursos, ya que la vivienda no es barata, y no se diga de otras comodidades. Aunando que la infraestructura pública tiende a ser precaria, y la industria automotriz es una de las mejores, sino, la mejor pagada, o sea, es de ahí para abajo, prácticamente no hay mejor. Ah, y como olvidar, los mejores puestos suelen tener a un extrangero que llega desde el país donde la empresa tiene su origen.
Do you have a plans for this series to cover some neomarxist and "affiliated" theories such as world-system analyis or "cltural" marxism? Obviously from a marxist prespective.
Agreed. I am merely drawing attention to Marini, who first articulated super-exploitation most explicitly. In my defense, the series is called "Marxism After Marx" not "Post-Marxism" 😅
I love your work my dude. Ah. Wish we could explain to everyone. Seems like ignorance is too powerful. Any way we can change that? People care about their own suffering, but if someone isnt suffering from something themselves, they will not care about anyone else.
I don't see how the fact that the capitalist class controls the distribution of wealth and resources runs counter to the idea that global north workers have a material benefit gained from imperialism. "Siding with their respective national capitalists" can only really happen in the global north. As mentioned in the video, in the vast majority of cases, the workers of the global south are exploited by their local capitalists as well as capitalists from the global north. For better or for worse, the modern communications technology discussed is owned by the capitalist class.
Great video! Apologies though for the irrelevance to this video but I have a question related to your video 'Europe's Transition Out of Feudalism' What is your opinion on the Transition debate and Brenner's thesis on the origin of capitalism?
Great video! i didn't know that concept even though i knew the phenomenon it describes! Though at 4:16 the fact that Papua New Guinea is somehow appearing among blue countries that don't super-exploit labor triggered me haha
Northern workers do play a part by participating in nationalist and imperialist movements. I really don't think that an alliance with the southern workers is on their immediate interests until their own living standards start to decline
Hey comrades, my life is at the moment at a turning point and I need your advice. I have some more days to apply for university, and don't know which study course I shall take. In the future I want to contribute to the revolution in some way or another. That's my only wish. The question now: Which study course would you recommend me attend at university? I have thought about political sciene, sociology, (cultural and social) anthropology, psychology and philosophy, economics, but recently I thought of history as well. But what do you guys think, what's the best study course for someone who wants to devote him-/herself to the revolution? Thanks for your help! Have a nice day :)
i find Superexploitation to be a more convincing framework to understand the uneven development of the 3rd world compared to the west rather than Unequal Exchange
I would encourage you to read a recent publication "Labour Super-Exploitation, Unequal Exchange, and Capital Reproduction" by Osorio et al. It makes, I think, a compelling argument that unequal exchange and super-exploitation mutually reinforce each other
@@themarxistproject agree. Above all, unequal exchange isn’t THE reason for the transfer of value from the periphery to the core, is more like a consequence of the divergence in wages which tends to reinforce super exploitation, which is more relevant I would say
Although I don’t share much their thought in general, I think Cosmopod has great articles regarding unequal exchange which explains it much better. Because, despite loving his books, I think Cockshott’s take on unequal exchange is very simplistic and relying on that false notion of wages corresponding to productivity, reasoning that is proven false by John Smith in his book.
TH-cam is a very weird space to analyze economically. TH-camrs do not exactly make a wage from the platform, nor is it clear if the work of making videos is truly "productive" in the Marxist sense. Maybe you can elaborate on how you view this dynamic?
@@themarxistproject So Marxism doesn't value creative work as productive? I think that may be a shortcoming. My point is that many people actively pursue it as a career and create content for a company that makes money off their labor and barely compensates most of them. They take on the roles of many different jobs, writer, editor, cinematographer, director and actor along with footing the bill for the gear to do it.
@benman9242 How so is it not? Rent seeking? I am somewhat confused by how TH-cam is a landlord. At face value it sounds like you are using different or very technical definitions that are apart from common understanding of the terms. Is a commodity ONLY a physical object to be bought with currency? I may have a definition that is less exclusive. I don't even know where to go with the rent seeking idea though.
if productivity decreases they will find a way to whip you into motion or if they can't do that they will export to the developing world and increase the exploitation there
Very good, keep it up This also good: The Economics of Modern Imperialism In: Historical Materialism Authors: Guglielmo Carchedi and Michael Roberts 2021
The thumbnail to the video is way off. It shows about 30% of wages they take for profit? (I know it's only a thumbnail, but...) As an example, Microsoft makes, on average, $780,000 off EACH employee annually (For Steam, it's greater than that). How much do you think an average employee at Microsoft makes? That means for some of us, they're paying as little as 12-15% of the worth we create. On average (at other jobs), I'd say probably closer to 20-35%. They are stealing 65-80% of what you create for wealth. If my grandfather wanted to live the same life he did, he'd have to make $240,000 a year as a machinist. If they could afford to pay him equivalent to that purchasing power in then 50's, imagine with all the advancements we've had in nearly 75 years. Get pissed. Organize. Fight back.
Did you just devide total profit by number of employees or is the calculation more sophisticated? The cost of an employee is usualy much larger than the wage.
2:40 higher productivity doesn’t increase the rate of exploitation unless the higher productivity impacts the goods that workers buy with their wages, higher productivity doesn’t increase the rate of exploitation alone
one of the biggest problems i have when discussing communism with people that are not proper comrades is that they keep comparing basic quality of life metrics of places like east-west germany, north-south korea, or taiwan vs china. the problem is that anyone with phone can quickly look things up that directly refute the one true philosophy as taught by karl marx. how do we conceal these differential outcomes from the masses long enough achieve power over them?
Yes. It is the most extreme form of super exploitation as the bourgeoise reaps all of the profit while the workers are paid no wage and are officially deemed private property as they would be outright owned by the capitalists.
The argument of all workers in the global north is plain wrong. 1. There is a lot of minimum wage workers, unepmloyed or underemployed in the Global North. 2. Workers do not profit from Imperialism. In actuality only large TNCs profit from it, especially weapons producers. (This is proved by Szymanski (Logic of Imperialism). 3. Due to higher labor costs productivity is usually higher in the GN, therefore workers can get a higher wage even if they relatively earn a smaller part of the whole value created, because products are still sold internationally at avg prices. Thanks for the video, otherwise great.
I didnt really get what this theory is about? Capitalists pay the cost of reproduction of a given good. In the case of labor this is the cost of reproducing labor aka the cost of living (food, rent, manual and psychological care work and services etc.). Countries in the global south have lower living standards, aka less labor demanding consumer goods, less socially established recovery processes, more household internal recovery work (that is not commodified) etc. Thus their wages are lower while labor power is universal and thus global. The real cause of this is the contraeiction between nation states and universality of labor. This is why capitalists out source production. Capitalists cannot pay less than "fair" wages, i.e. wages that let labor survive or else there would be no labor to exploit. If capitalists, in certain scenarios, really paid less than the cost of living, then you would have to tell me how these workers survive.
marx's claim is of the stupiest theories i ever read. overhead costs are out of his mind. so basically in his theory the cost of a building to install a production is 0, lol. ❤
So you're saying stop immigration so poor people don't get taken advantage of here in the 1st world and also put tariffs up to stop exploitation of labor in the global south? Just say vote Trump already.
Pausing my work to watch.
Ayyy nice
I call that a mini strike!
John Smith's "Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century" is one of the best books I've ever read
In Russia we also have hyper-super-mega exploitation, where migrant workers are not only paid less than the norm, but also may have a part of their salary docked by corrupt businessmen or bureaucrats for tax purposes. For example, the city of Moscow may have a contract to pay a migrant 50000 rubles to work as a street sweeper, but in reality his direct employer pays him 35000 and pockets the rest. On the surface everything seems legitimate, hiding this super-exploitation. It's also one of the reasons employers don't hire Russian citizens, who aren't as easy to exploit using this particular trick. Naturally this all creates a lot of tensions between migrants (who think of Russians as exploiters) and Russians (who think of migrants as someone taking their jobs).
Very sad that things have come to this since the fall of the USSR
Glory to the Revolution, Comrades! Hello and Thanks from Belarus 🥰😇😚
Solidarity from Colorado, comrades. ❤
@@lococomrade3488 Hey there, Comrade
Hi comrade, from Malaysia
Fuk yeah more like betta-Rus (Betta sounds like "better", thus "Better-Rus(sia)"
I'm not making a serious statement the pun is just low hanging fruit.
@@monsieurdorgat6864 That's some cool linguistic flex in here. Btw, I'm a linguist and an English teacher 😎
I can only commend your channel for such didactic scripts and top-notch graphics/editing, which makes concepts so much easier to understand.
It still doesn't make the theory correct. Are employees paid less than what their inputs are worth?
Marini's The Dialectics of Dependency is well worth a read!
Agree!
Video on Economic Calculation problem? 🤞🤞🤞
Hmm...I'll need some time to gather resources and thoughts on it, but I think it would be a good one to make
@@themarxistproject much thanks comrade 🫡🫡🫡
@@CarterSimon777 smol computers in every workplace, mid sized computers in every district planing center and One BIg ole Computery per Republic + Dunkelhase/ Cockshott or Cybernertical planing model = Austrians Nightmare
I always find the thesis of the Economic Calculation Problem weird.
It was proposed in 1920 so... before any actual consolidated results of socialist experiments, and then... and then, even when doing calculus on pen and paper, the soviets somehow managed a huge productivity gain, waste reduction, growth rate and gain of life expectancy.
Whichever problem there was on calculation, it still seemed to be doing a lot better by attempting calculus, without even using computers and cybernetics, than by not attempting the calculation at all.
I mean, capitalism is failing the economic calculation problem massively. I give you Bitcoin.
thank you for your work, im a total marx newbie but going to begin reading capital so was wondering if theres a specific edition/translation i should look for and if any intro reading would be useful
Great to hear that you're taking on Capital! It is challenging at times, but indispensable to read carefully and understand.
The version published by Penguin is totally fine.
On translations (I say this as someone who has read all three volumes plus several other major works): I don't think the nuances in translation are particularly important for newcomers to the material. There are some "Marxologists" out there who swear by the importance and I do understand that certain subtleties are lost from German to English, but as a beginner I think it is your job to simply engage with the major principles in the texts. Those are not going to be very different across the various translations.
My rule of thumb is: pick whatever is most accessible to you, in terms of price / shipping / physical location.
Intro reading:
An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital by Michael Heinrich
or
Companion to Marx's Capital by David Harvey
People have argued for and against these types of texts, but I think they can be useful if you need some guidance / additional explanations. I understand the concerns though. If you read these works before or during your exposure to the original text, they might prevent your own interpretation developing. I don't think this is a big problem for beginners though -- the main point is getting into the text and doing your best with the concepts.
Marx's own work, "Value, Price, and Profit" and "Wage Labour and Capital" are smaller texts that could help out with comprehension.
If you don't have prior experience reading these older, technical works, just focus on getting through it with as much attention as possible to the main arguments. Some stuff won't make sense because it's very specific to questions/issues of Marx's time.
Feel free to get in touch via email if you run into any questions as you read (I can't promise to be very quick with responses though): themarxistproject [@] gmail [.] com
i really appreaciate you taking the time, your guidance and understanding is a massive help. ill be sure to reach out if i run up against anything too unwieldy and i dont mind about response time, your upload schedule has taught me to be very patient. but in all seriousness as long as you keep doing the work ill keep watching and learning!
take care, left is best
I would read Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels first, it is very short and touches on some of the main contradictions of the capitalist system that Marx touches upon in Capital, as well as briefly discussing surplus value. It also offers a clear distinction between the utopian socialism and scientific socialism (marxism), which is an important difference to take into account when reading Marx and Engels, who spent much of their writing making polemics against utopian socialists like Proudhon and Durring. These debates are still important today, as the left (especially in the global north) is infected with many utopian tendencies (Anarchism, Co-op Socialism, Social Democracy, etc.)
Good luck comrade!
Michael Roberts talks about this and doesn't outright reject the idea of super-exploitation, but offers reasoning that it is not the main source of surplus value. There's several posts on his blog about this specifically and debating John Smith's "Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century". I think its more convincing to say it's a temporary thing that happens, but it either can not be sustained or the value of labor power permanently changes for that nation, becoming normal exploitation.
Hey novince? May I please get some citations?
@@injusticeanywherethreatens4810 There's "Once more on unequal exchange" video by him & "The so-called Unequal Exchange" as well. There's two other videos on the topic I believe on his channel. I would also suggest "The Economics of Modern Imperialism" DOI:10.1163/1569206X-12341959 I think both agree on that any difference is due to difference in technology first and foremost. However, there are differences in the conclusions they both draw.
@@SolarEmbrace i see. Thank you
Incredible video. This channel is doing the work that we need.
Indeed, we must give the system total control of our lives so they can prove history wrong and be the first ones to not massacre its people. Pure genius, comrade!
@@Brumsly Read an actual history book.
@@Brumsly you’re projecting - the banks already own everything and our tax dollars are currently being used to fund a genocide
Very interesting concept, thank you. I see some parallels with rising consumer prices vs shrinkflation. Instead of increasing the price of a consumer good with a set quantity as it happens in normal inflation - say, a 500 ml carton of milk - what happens is that the price remains the same but the quantity is reduced, with the carton of milk now actually having 450 or 400 ml. The effect is the same of course: bigger profit margins for the capitalist.
My critique of the concept of a labour aristocracy is around the idea that Lenin wasn't that serious about it, as it seems he made a generalization about something he noticed but didn't have a better way to explain by that time, that's why he didn't went further into it, if so he would've noticed a similar scenario with minorities in general, which he actually acknowledged about domestic work and the situation of the women in the working class, but not in that regard.
Take into account that I'm from the global south, I'm not defending the north or the reactionary views within part of their working class, but if you consider what a aristocracy means, materialistic speaking isn't possible to be a labour aristocrat, dialectly speaking is not ass sound too, because is too broad to be, in the end the truth is just the same old international division of labor, if you consider the consumption part of it, which some people call it as the "consumerist sphere", a part of the working class dedicated to buy stuff more than produce stuff, so they exist as a way to guarantee the ongoing super exploitation, not by being aristocrats, but rather by being alienated to the point of living towards consumerism.
why is east guinea blue 🤨
It is a major imperial power, obviously
Colony of australia
Intan Suwandi cited
great video as always
Question: If I work for a company in the global North & they year on year refuse to put my salary up in line with inflation such that I end up living on savings to at least in part pay my monthly bills, am I being super-exploited, or just plain old exploited?
Yes
5:38 ¡México mencionado!
Como mexicano, no solo lo puedo respaldar, sino detallar. La propia forma de vida más barata y los productos de la canasta básica costando menos que en Europa, garantiza que las bajas pagas dadas por las empresas de mencionado continente, no sean vistas tan mal, pues en comparación, se gasta menos por más, sin embargo, ésto no es garantizado en todas las regiones, especialmente (e irónicamente) en la zona norte, que es también donde más se concentran dichas empresas (n de empresas de cierto producto en el estado / n de empresas total en el estado).
Además, éso solo es para algunos recursos, ya que la vivienda no es barata, y no se diga de otras comodidades.
Aunando que la infraestructura pública tiende a ser precaria, y la industria automotriz es una de las mejores, sino, la mejor pagada, o sea, es de ahí para abajo, prácticamente no hay mejor. Ah, y como olvidar, los mejores puestos suelen tener a un extrangero que llega desde el país donde la empresa tiene su origen.
Any sources on current international labour action?
I love what you do. It makes the concepts much easier to understand.
But it doesn't make the concepts and theories correct.
Do you have a plans for this series to cover some neomarxist and "affiliated" theories such as world-system analyis or "cltural" marxism? Obviously from a marxist prespective.
Your videos rock!
I love the wholesome intro and music
Thanks for the Video 🙏 BTW Labor aristocracy is a notion introduced not by Lenin but by Hobson of whom Lenin quotes in his Book Brief Imperialism
the new intro is really cool
Great video comrades, cheers from Brazil
This isn’t post Marxism. This is just marxism
Agreed. I am merely drawing attention to Marini, who first articulated super-exploitation most explicitly.
In my defense, the series is called "Marxism After Marx" not "Post-Marxism" 😅
What the map in this video change at some point. I seem to remember more countries being blue in it originally?
I am watching while working
I.e.; stock buybacks and executive wages.
Okay but seriously who made the map and how high did they have to be to put Papua New Guinea as part of the global north?
I don't think Papua New Guinea is in the global North.
I love your work my dude. Ah. Wish we could explain to everyone. Seems like ignorance is too powerful. Any way we can change that? People care about their own suffering, but if someone isnt suffering from something themselves, they will not care about anyone else.
No choice but to keep engaging with people and encouraging critical analysis!
I don't see how the fact that the capitalist class controls the distribution of wealth and resources runs counter to the idea that global north workers have a material benefit gained from imperialism.
"Siding with their respective national capitalists" can only really happen in the global north. As mentioned in the video, in the vast majority of cases, the workers of the global south are exploited by their local capitalists as well as capitalists from the global north.
For better or for worse, the modern communications technology discussed is owned by the capitalist class.
You're arguing with ghosts.
I don't think the video is disagreeing with you.
@@peter0x444 I don't think so either. Some things just weren't explained in the level of detail that I was expecting.
Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism by Zak Cope
great video!
great video, comrade!
Great video! Apologies though for the irrelevance to this video but I have a question related to your video 'Europe's Transition Out of Feudalism'
What is your opinion on the Transition debate and Brenner's thesis on the origin of capitalism?
Can we still join your discord?
News flash: Consumers seek to pay as little as possible from producers. Who knew?
Great video! i didn't know that concept even though i knew the phenomenon it describes!
Though at 4:16 the fact that Papua New Guinea is somehow appearing among blue countries that don't super-exploit labor triggered me haha
Primary comment.
Surplus comment.
Surplus comment.
Super-surplus comment
Super-Exploited comment.
Brazil mentioned!!!!!
Brasileiro mencionado!!❤
Northern workers do play a part by participating in nationalist and imperialist movements. I really don't think that an alliance with the southern workers is on their immediate interests until their own living standards start to decline
I think labor aristocrats are more likely to go fascist than communist. Certainly there will be some that defect.
Hey comrades,
my life is at the moment at a turning point and I need your advice.
I have some more days to apply for university, and don't know which study course I shall take.
In the future I want to contribute to the revolution in some way or another. That's my only wish.
The question now: Which study course would you recommend me attend at university?
I have thought about political sciene, sociology, (cultural and social) anthropology, psychology and philosophy, economics, but recently I thought of history as well.
But what do you guys think, what's the best study course for someone who wants to devote him-/herself to the revolution?
Thanks for your help! Have a nice day :)
I know Im late, but you should choose based on that you enjoy the most + avarage salary for professions you can aquire after receiving this education.
i find Superexploitation to be a more convincing framework to understand the uneven development of the 3rd world compared to the west rather than Unequal Exchange
I would encourage you to read a recent publication "Labour Super-Exploitation, Unequal Exchange, and Capital Reproduction" by Osorio et al.
It makes, I think, a compelling argument that unequal exchange and super-exploitation mutually reinforce each other
@@themarxistproject agree. Above all, unequal exchange isn’t THE reason for the transfer of value from the periphery to the core, is more like a consequence of the divergence in wages which tends to reinforce super exploitation, which is more relevant I would say
Although I don’t share much their thought in general, I think Cosmopod has great articles regarding unequal exchange which explains it much better.
Because, despite loving his books, I think Cockshott’s take on unequal exchange is very simplistic and relying on that false notion of wages corresponding to productivity, reasoning that is proven false by John Smith in his book.
*The Marxist Project uploads video*
*I take a break from work*
*Like*
*Get educated*
So would TH-cam qualify as a super-exploiter? Sure seems like a good fit to the definition as I understood it.
TH-cam is a very weird space to analyze economically. TH-camrs do not exactly make a wage from the platform, nor is it clear if the work of making videos is truly "productive" in the Marxist sense.
Maybe you can elaborate on how you view this dynamic?
@@themarxistproject So Marxism doesn't value creative work as productive? I think that may be a shortcoming. My point is that many people actively pursue it as a career and create content for a company that makes money off their labor and barely compensates most of them. They take on the roles of many different jobs, writer, editor, cinematographer, director and actor along with footing the bill for the gear to do it.
TH-camrs are the most advanced and exploited class! xD
@benman9242 How so is it not? Rent seeking? I am somewhat confused by how TH-cam is a landlord. At face value it sounds like you are using different or very technical definitions that are apart from common understanding of the terms. Is a commodity ONLY a physical object to be bought with currency? I may have a definition that is less exclusive. I don't even know where to go with the rent seeking idea though.
@@jmagowan12 are they not (mostly underpaid) workers? Sorry if I misunderstand your intent with the comment.
get even: take longer breaks. slow down. don't give a f/ or not.
if productivity decreases they will find a way to whip you into motion or if they can't do that they will export to the developing world and increase the exploitation there
Like the other person said, if productivity decreases, they whip you into shape. Worst case, you're out of a job during the next down-sizing.
Great video
Very good, keep it up
This also good: The Economics of Modern Imperialism
In: Historical Materialism
Authors: Guglielmo Carchedi and Michael Roberts 2021
your videos are awesome but man this naked Marx avatar makes me so unconfortable
The thumbnail to the video is way off. It shows about 30% of wages they take for profit? (I know it's only a thumbnail, but...)
As an example, Microsoft makes, on average, $780,000 off EACH employee annually (For Steam, it's greater than that). How much do you think an average employee at Microsoft makes? That means for some of us, they're paying as little as 12-15% of the worth we create. On average (at other jobs), I'd say probably closer to 20-35%. They are stealing 65-80% of what you create for wealth.
If my grandfather wanted to live the same life he did, he'd have to make $240,000 a year as a machinist. If they could afford to pay him equivalent to that purchasing power in then 50's, imagine with all the advancements we've had in nearly 75 years.
Get pissed.
Organize.
Fight back.
Did you just devide total profit by number of employees or is the calculation more sophisticated? The cost of an employee is usualy much larger than the wage.
2:40 higher productivity doesn’t increase the rate of exploitation unless the higher productivity impacts the goods that workers buy with their wages, higher productivity doesn’t increase the rate of exploitation alone
Is everything okay? You have been gone for 5 months 😢
Get organized at your local RCI (revolutionary communist international) branch ✊
one of the biggest problems i have when discussing communism with people that are not proper comrades is that they keep comparing basic quality of life metrics of places like east-west germany, north-south korea, or taiwan vs china. the problem is that anyone with phone can quickly look things up that directly refute the one true philosophy as taught by karl marx. how do we conceal these differential outcomes from the masses long enough achieve power over them?
Is slavery a form of super exploitation?
Yes. It is the most extreme form of super exploitation as the bourgeoise reaps all of the profit while the workers are paid no wage and are officially deemed private property as they would be outright owned by the capitalists.
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The argument of all workers in the global north is plain wrong.
1. There is a lot of minimum wage workers, unepmloyed or underemployed in the Global North.
2. Workers do not profit from Imperialism. In actuality only large TNCs profit from it, especially weapons producers. (This is proved by Szymanski (Logic of Imperialism).
3. Due to higher labor costs productivity is usually higher in the GN, therefore workers can get a higher wage even if they relatively earn a smaller part of the whole value created, because products are still sold internationally at avg prices.
Thanks for the video, otherwise great.
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Unions get higher wages. Landlords take those wages as rents. No?
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I find it rich that Marx wrote about exploitation when he never held a job and lived off the graces of others.
He did have jobs such
I didnt really get what this theory is about? Capitalists pay the cost of reproduction of a given good. In the case of labor this is the cost of reproducing labor aka the cost of living (food, rent, manual and psychological care work and services etc.). Countries in the global south have lower living standards, aka less labor demanding consumer goods, less socially established recovery processes, more household internal recovery work (that is not commodified) etc. Thus their wages are lower while labor power is universal and thus global. The real cause of this is the contraeiction between nation states and universality of labor. This is why capitalists out source production. Capitalists cannot pay less than "fair" wages, i.e. wages that let labor survive or else there would be no labor to exploit. If capitalists, in certain scenarios, really paid less than the cost of living, then you would have to tell me how these workers survive.
To begin with, marx never trusted Russia.
marx's claim is of the stupiest theories i ever read. overhead costs are out of his mind. so basically in his theory the cost of a building to install a production is 0, lol. ❤
Christ is King 👑
So you're saying stop immigration so poor people don't get taken advantage of here in the 1st world and also put tariffs up to stop exploitation of labor in the global south? Just say vote Trump already.