Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.
Same thing really but I really like Fishers incorporation of zombies
I’ll be honest, I just looked it up and shared the link (E: and in case you didn’t notice, am not the op of the thread), I’m no good with texts that long so have never read the entire thing, though I have left the link open to read through at least this part once I have my cuppa, and have bookmarked the pdf for future reference, so I might have to get back to you on that 😁
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
[Karl Marx]
I’d be interesting in hearing any defence of what I believe is indefensible.
Same thing really but I really like Fishers incorporation of zombies
I’d love the few paragraphs preceding that.
The sentence makes sense on its own, and i agree with it, but I’d love the surrounding context.
Here you go, it’s in chapter 10 section 4, p175: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-I.pdf
The commodity fetishism one?
Man I read this exact passage a long time ago in my intro to social theory seminar:
I’ll be honest, I just looked it up and shared the link (E: and in case you didn’t notice, am not the op of the thread), I’m no good with texts that long so have never read the entire thing, though I have left the link open to read through at least this part once I have my cuppa, and have bookmarked the pdf for future reference, so I might have to get back to you on that 😁
Ah thanks for the edit, it helps, because there are a lot of section 4’s