Reading chapter 15 on machinery and modern industry, episode 8 focuses on the relationship between technology, capital, and class struggle. After examining Marx’s method of approaching technological transformation, we show how machinery provides the adequate technical foundations for the capitalist mode of production because it displaces and objectifies the knowledge and skills that were formerly held in the living body of the worker. Going through the different sections of the chapter and assessing how they relate to our contemporary organizing, we review: the role machinery plays in capitalist expansion (in terms of class power, colonialism, and imperialism); how it changes the life and organization of work by atomizing workers and subjecting our labor and bodies to machinery; how technology is a response to and site of class struggle; and the role that the state plays in all of this. Because machinery enables capitalism to stand on its own, we also get a first glimpse at industrial cycles of expansion and crisis and how capitalism produces structural unemployment (an industrial reserve army). Throughout the episode, we pay attention to technology fetishism and the idea that technology “develops” and “advances,” and that it’s always a gain for humanity. We also highlight Marx’s mention of how communism could transform the role technology plays in our lives and the world at large.

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#8: TECHNOLOGY (Ch. 15)

Our tenth episode marks a transition from examining the production of capital on an individual scale to capitalism as a totality that continually reproduces and expands. We begin with the introduction to Part 7 of the book (the only part that has one), where Marx defines the circulation of capital and articulates the assumptions he makes in the following 3 chapters. Then in chapter 23, we define simple reproduction, a logical schema Marx uses to set the the stage for the next two chapters on reproduction on an expanding scale. Simple reproduction allows us to see that the reproduction of capital is the reproduction of the class relation--of the command of capital over labor--and that it is the working class that reproduces the totality of capital. Next, we return to Marx’s concept of productive labor in light of this analysis, because here Marx shows that workers--even those who are unemployed or engaged in non-waged forms of work--are still crucial to reproducing capitalism. With chapter 24, we move from simple reproduction to reproduction on an expanding scale--or the accumulation of capital--where Marx corrects some erroneous assumptions of bourgeois political economy, attends to the relationship between economic production, the legal system, and ideology, and explains how the logic of capital requires the constant revolutionizing of the means of production. We again draw out his mention of communism and consider its relationship to his earlier remarks.

Article mentioned in this episode: https://liberationschool.org/social-reproduction-a-theoretical-framework-with-organizing-potential/

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#10: REPRODUCTION (Ch. 23-24)

Our eleventh episode concentrates on chapter 25, where Marx synthesizes his findings so far to articulate some general laws (or tendencies) of capitalist accumulation. We cover the different compositions of capital before turning to the two models of accumulation Marx proposes, the difference between concentration and centralization, and how the centralization of capital provides the material foundation for communism. We clarify the general law of capitalist accumulation and the absolute general law of capitalist accumulation before examining the impacts they have on the working class, including the production of an industrial reserve army. After examining how the reserve army serves as a lever of capitalist accumulation, we go next to reviewing some of the layers of the industrial reserve army--including the “dangerous classes”--and relating them to our contemporary condition. We draw out that here Marx is insisting that the working class includes all of those who are oppressed and exploited by capitalism and what this means for organizing. Finally, we spend some time on the colonization of Ireland and how Marx’s thought about the relationship between anti-colonial and socialist revolution developed over time.

Articles mentioned in this chapter: https://www.liberationnews.org/us-govt-jobs-report-the-reality-behind-the-fakery/

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#11: CAPITAL’S TENDENCIES (Ch. 25)

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6 de agosto de 2022 - 10:00 a.m. I Alabanza y adoración

Juan Luna | Descanso para el cansado | 02/05/23

This is chapter 2 for “To the Lonely Sea and the Sky” by zythepsary
Rated: Explicit
Pairing(s): Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet/Israel Hands, Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet, Stede Bonnet/Israel Hands
Fic Summary: 
The core concepts had always seemed fairly simple to Stede: block like that, swing like this, try not to get stabbed. Izzy made it look infinitely more complicated and somehow, too easy. He moved like water, without hesitation.

Izzy decides Stede needs proper swordplay lessons.
Chapter Summary: Stede has a vivid imagination. Ed makes a suggestion.

Original fic found here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/40963257
Author’s Tags: Post-Season/Series 01, Slow Burn, Swordplay, Scars, Frottage, Knifeplay, Deepthroating, Choking, Kneeling, Intercrural Sex, Face Slapping, Light Bondage, Shaving

The Intro/Outro is “Rule #27 - Drunk on Pride” by Fish in a Birdcage and Philip Bowen. You can find it here: https://open.spotify.com/track/2hhk7nZsDBQe4UlBR6o2PY?si=3af04df93a7240b0

Chapter 2 “To the Lonely Sea and the Sky” by zythepsary (OFMD) Updated Version

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4 de Septiembre de 2016 - Chuy García

An interactive, chapter-by-chapter class on Karl Marx's 'Capital' Volume 1 for all skill levels, taught in 12 episodes by socialist educators.

#8: TECHNOLOGY (Ch. 15)

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