#1 https://nitter.net/Itmechr3/status/1327814014630584320
#2 https://nitter.net/OneiricCanid/status/1295866346727710726
#3 https://nitter.net/Lynxgespuis/status/1327824748550770692
Where do you even begin with some of this? It’s all so mangled and stupid.
Some greatest hits from these:
The problem is that as a propaganda tool the labor theory of value needs to function at an individual level so you can tell a worker that their surplus value is being exploited ect. ect. even if the truth is likely much more complicated. Class functions much the same way.
I’ve seen like 14 different theoretical explanations claiming to be from the left for why it’s actually good when store owners shoot looters, including my favorite "Korean store owners weren’t actually shooting at Black looters to kill them and besides this whole thing is a distraction from fighting the white ruling class
Left Twitter doesn’t care about about class in a sociological sense. What it cares about is class in a moral sense
the Marxist definition of “Bourgeoisie” is not the colloquial one.
You need class consciousness before a Marxist analysis of class can be helpful.
the idea of surplus value has also seemed largely pointless in a world filled with jobs which don’t actually contribute to material production
OK, this is the worst one. They don’t think the definition of class involving wage labour is enough because of their stupid graph that doesn’t take into account fucking time (proletarian children will grow up into wage labour at some point) and dependencies on the wages of family members.
https://nitter.net/NullMagitech/status/1327863539067801601
That graph is so useless, it doesn’t even list the bourgousie as nonworkers. Which probably means that they are counted as “workers”.