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he/him. eydisher komunist. Decolonial ML-MZT.
occupied Quinnipiac territory
Joined November 2021
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A McDonalds hamburger costs $2.09 at the register. McDonalds internal documents show that the raw materials (patty, bun, etc.) cost $0.34. A McDonalds employee makes $11/hr on average with a shift manager making $15/hr. Shifts are 8 people on average. That means McDonalds pays.
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"The U.S. isn't fascist" brother we have three branches of secret police, paramilitary death squads, governmental immunity from its own crimes, and a government run by the wealthiest and most powerful corporations in the world.
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$77 + $15/hr in wages to a shift (total $92). The average McDonalds makes $2.7 million/year in sales. That is $308/hour, or roughly 147 hamburgers every hour at $2.09. Subtracting the wage of the workers ($92) and cost of materials ($49.98), this means there is $166 in surplus.
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"Slavery was never profitable" do you hear yourself. I guess the world transported human beings through storms and over seas to serve as slaves throughout human history because they thought it was a funny joke.
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value accumulated every hour by the capitalist. If we take the value of the 147 hamburgers and distribute it among the workers who completed them and placed them into circulation, we get $258.02 ($308-$49.98) divided among 8 workers for $32/worker/hour as compared to their.
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$11/hr wages. The rate of exploitation of the McDonald’s workers is thus, when the raw materials are taken as constant capital and not variable capital, is 32:11, roughly 3:1. This means, that of each hamburger, if 34 cents is raw material and the sale price is $2.09, there.
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I have a homeless client. He's Black and he lives in his car. The state is prosecuting him with a weapon in a motor vehicle law because he was pulled over, and he told police he had his pistol in the car. He was permitted to carry and kept it in his glovebox, where the law says.
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so much lower. Why is that?. Imperialism. The labor market of Brazil is artificially depressed by fascists like Bolsonaro, who are put into power by US interests to keep prices low. US monopoly capital also destroys the quality of life in imperialized countries because this.
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is $1.75 attributable to the work of the McDonalds employees in the store. We can divide that value among the 8 workers, and we’d come up with 21 cents per hamburger created by each one. However, let’s look a little more carefully, not merely from the point of view of the.
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This is a demonstration of the basic laws of capitalism, with the curtain pulled back for all to see. The state itself is acting to enforce the existence of surplus value rather than distribution according to need. These commodities must be destroyed for that reason.
A store closed down and what you see is a pile of inventory leftover. Instead of allowing the product to be of any use to the population, the government brought in DOZENS of officers to guard the area while local inmates were forced to gather and trash it.
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McDonald’s capitalist, but from the point of view of the imperialist. The beef patty in a McDonald’s hamburger weighs 1.6 ounces. According to the corporation, the meat is a combination of chuck ($4/lb), sirloin ($9/lb), and round ($7/lb). The prices of these meats is from the.
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I'm voting as hard as I can but my government is still a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie???? Someone help.
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MARKUP (charging more than a thing is worth) but from THEFT (stealing and refusing to compensate the legitimate labor of the worker).
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Lenin: member of a party that gave Ukraine self determination for the first time and helped create a Soviet republic there. Liberals: lol russians
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worldwide beef, and grows it on land assarted from the Amazon. A Brazilian livestock handler makes 16 reals/hr, which is $3.21 USD. Brazilian beef costs a mere $1.76 and $2/lb. We can see why. The price of Brazilian beef is so much lower because the Brazilian worker’s wage is.
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US beef markets. We can take the average of these three prices: $6.50/lb. For the amount contained in a hamburger (1.6 ounces), this comes to roughly .65 cents ($6.50/16 = .40). As you can see, this is more than the entire value of the raw materials in the McDonald’s.
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hamburger. Even if they receive a twenty-five per-cent discount for bulk operations, that’s still 49 cents per hamburger. One of the top countries supplying beef to McDonalds is Brazil, which shouldn’t be a surprise: the Brazilian ranching industry supplies a huge amount of.
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He's articulating the view of his whole class.
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is how the socially necessary labor time is determined for reproducing the labor force. If the Brazilian beef costs 34 cents for 1.6 ounces while the reproduction cost of the Brazilian ranch hand is $3.21 an hour, then we may establish a ratio - roughly $3/hr to 30 cents or.
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alone suspended his license. State police saw this and suspended his pistol permit. They sent him notice that he couldn't carry anymore. Except he doesn't have an address. This is gun control. Police are the problem. The capitalist state is the problem.
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The fact that high school students have joined the student movement before the labor unions or the publicly proclaimed communists is an indictment of our organizational ability and imperial chauvinism rampant in the U.S.
BREAKING: High school students from across Boston walk out of class to join the MIT student encampment in response to the increasing police repression. Eleven high schools, including private high school Boston Latin, have walked out to stand with Gaza.
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keep the class consciousness of the metropolitan workers from developing, and they also concentrate the high-waged, final finishing work for products and the management positions within the metropole. These are the wages of imperialism.
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$1/hr to 10 cents. If the ranch hand made $11/hour just as the metropolitan workers do, this would be an increase of 3 and a half times, increasing the Brazilian beef cost to $1.19 for 1.6 ounces. If we wished to maintain the price equilibrium by which the hamburger is sold at.
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near-slave conditions on the Brazilian plain. The metropolitan worker is directly paid 3 times more for their labor, the hamburger’s cost is depressed for all metropolitan workers, the metropolitan capitalists (the monopoly capitalists) provide other social safety benefits to.
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$2.09, this would require an equalization of wages between the metropolitan worker and the peripheral worker. That is to say, because the hamburger is worth $1.75 in labor ($1.75+$0.34=$2.09) from the metropolitan worker, we must equalize the $1.75 in metropolitan labor with the.
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the law of unequal development and the imperialist forced underdevelopment of the periphery. The pay for the entire cavalcade of non-productive or marginally productive executives, HR reps, advertising, etc., etc., all comes out of the 11 hamburgers sold after the first 7.
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peripheral worker. For each hamburger made, the metropolitan worker is paid 3x the wage of the peripheral worker. The metropolitan worker cooking the burger on the grill, assembling the worker, dealing with angry customers, and selling the burger; the ranch hand is enduring.
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$0.34 in peripheral labor. If we were to divide these into two equal parts, that is, $1.04 worth of peripheral labor crystallized in the meat and $1.04 worth of labor in the metropole for the finishing of the meat into a final product, that is a change of $0.71 in favor of the.
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HARRIS: I want to be clear. My policy is that I'm a Republican.
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Lots of quote tweets etc. demanding I account for credit, interest payments, advertising, salaries for HR and executives, franchising fees, rent, machinery, etc. I didn't factor in any of the standard constant capital valuations for a reason: it obscures the point, which is.
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its supposed to be. The law they're prosecuting him under has a 2 year mandatory minimum. He's a homeless uber driver. The trick is, two months prior, cops arrested him for sleeping with his car on. They charged him with a DUI. Even though they couldn't prove it, the charge.
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And obviously there are things other than burgers made at a McDonalds - each product has a different individual rate of exploitation for the workers (for example, the soda is hugely exploitative and mostly mark-up). Important, however, is that most of the profit is not from.
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So do the salaries of the CEOs. Rent actually isn't a factor for a McDonalds because the corporation owns the ground. The franchisee pays the corporate office rent, but the corporate office pays no one. These costs are all marginal - as are the electricity and water costs.
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No it's because he's rich.
Mark Ruffalo is INCREDIBLY pro-Palestine and INSANELY critical of the Biden/Harris admin’s handling of Palestine and yet he’s endorsing Harris, probably because he understands how moronic it is to vote third party.
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please don't abandon historical materialism for unproveable conspiracies.
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so let me get this straight: the anti-communist network filmed their new anti-communist show in a Nazi liquidation camp which they dressed up to be a soviet prison.
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3 cents per burger at the average rate of 147 burgers per hour. The cost of upper management is mostly faux frais which can be eliminated, or non-productive labor which is parasitic, etc. There is still PLENTY of value to cover the necessary work at higher levels.
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and the degradation of the grill, etc. The grill itself costs around $3,000 but can make an untold number of hamburgers, imparting to the hamburger a mere fraction of a fraction of a cent. The typical annual mcdonalds power bill is $40,000. That works out to $4.5/hour or.
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So this is clearly the time to watch US economic and foreign policy like a hawk.
NOW - US recovered non-human biological pilots from crashed crafts, UFO whistleblower says in hearing.
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The people who are minimizing the genocide in Palestine on behalf of the Democrats are showing you exactly what they'll do when its YOU in a camp: they'll vote for the internments because they have to keep THEIR rights.
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I hate the fact that we're swimming in such deep fascist waters that you seem like a madman pointing out how deeply rooted it is in our culture.
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For some few days in July of 1877, the city of St. Louis was held by a revolutionary Commune. You fancy yourself a communist but don't know about the only self-organized commune in the territorial U.S.? Sit right down and listen.
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So you agree that we should blow up the trolley.
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Yelled at for wearing a "Russian" coat and when I said it wasn't Russian it was Soviet, this woman said "so was Putin".
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The crash that's coming is gonna make 2008 look like a picnic.
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All the genocidaires now have Palestinian flag emojis (don't laugh!).
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Actual Black Communists went to war with the Klan in 30s Jim Crow South, but I guess they're not as real as vampires.
RYAN COOGLER and MICHAEL B. JORDAN's secret film, set in the '30s Jim Crow South, is rumored to be about Vampires going to war against the Ku Klux Klan.
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This image reverses the causation. The U.S. government isn't zionist because Tel Aviv controls it, it is zionist because it is in the ruling class interest to preserve the zionist project as a weapon of the United States.
BREAKING: . 🇮🇱🇺🇲 The US House has passed an act that totally bans speaking and protesting against Israel. Even if you preach parts of the bible that clearly state the days the Jews killed Christ you will be arrested. In response to campus anti-Israel protests, the House is
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Given the concentration of trans people currently organizing in Marxist spaces, I'm willing to say that anti trans is anti Communist at this point.
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Not one U.S. politician should escape the trials.
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This is the definition of reactive violence, and the people who don't think it's justified are the same who defend the blood-soaked systems of oppression and cry when anyone dares challenge them.
Have you ever noticed that women always escalate their reactions x100?
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Standard Oil and the rockefellers were in league with - literally - the German heavy industry cartel that created and financed the Nazis even during the war. IBM made the concentration camps possible. The "defeat" of Nazism was its absorption back into American capital.
The US did not "defeat" fascism in WW2, it reorganized and absorbed fascism to be subordinated to US imperialism, a more sophisticated fascism repainted with a liberal veneer, and went on to commit countless more genocides. The US-NATO-zionist Empire is the Fourth Reich.
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Every single U.S. president has been a Hitler.
I'm sorry you have to pick between bland normie Dem and Adolf fucking Hitler.
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The Feds have arrived.
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YOUR BROTHER HAS BEEN MURDERED. THE MARINE WALKS FREE. Gather your communities. Form Defense Committees. ACT.
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Anyone who denies this is just a flat out reactionary at this point
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There's a reason this looks like every lame-ass drug bust photo from a US police department.
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CPUSA is repeating its white chauvinist history by expelling and dissolving clubs for "black nationalism".
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Israel is the final form of the United States. It is the technocracy with its last scraps of illusion, it's last fig leaves, stripped away. It is the grinning skull of fascism, the child of capital.
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Communists must cultivate interpersonal skills. Sorry! Your inability to get along with others actually does make you a Bad Communist!.
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I've never been less invested in the outcome of an election in my life.
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They made a calculated decision that it's worth their faction losing power for now to preserve the overall interests of the ruling class.
Actually, Democrats are too stupid to see that Biden's belligerent genocidal fascism is killing their chance for anything in November.
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The American War of Independence was fostered and run by slave traders and slave owners - merchants in Boston and planters in Charleston. Immediately after the war, the small farmers of Massachusetts were crushed when they asked for debt relief: shot and hanged by the new rulers.
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Oh yeah?
@primarycatdad i have no idea who finds this pseudoleftist drivel so compelling. The US has no colonies and is not an empire.
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@definetly_pedro Stranger Things filmed in a notorious Nazi prison in Vilnius which basically saw the liquidation of the Jewish population of Lithuania.
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If you consider yourself a revolutionary, stop asking how the revolution will improve your life and start asking what you're willing to give up to improve the future of others.
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"This is going to be very unpopular [common American Hitlerite take]".
This is going to be a very unpopular take but building more jails may be the most efficient and least horrifying way to deal with the homeless.
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"Cop City" isn't a single place being built in Atlanta - it is the widespread adoption of counterinsurgency within the US, the final manifestation of the DHS centralization of domestic agencies. Its DHS that's pushing the RICO investigations. The CIA is surveilling protests.
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"It's easier to organize under the Democrats" why do you think that is. They represent the portion of the ruling class practicing containment. They give you a sandbox and you stay in it. You buffoons!.
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There's no such thing as "other leftists." There are Marxists and there are the stooges of the bourgeoisie dressed up in funny costumes. Sorry to break it to you.
MLs have never stopped attacking any and all other leftists. Anyone who suggests "leftist unity" with these people need to be laughed out of every room.
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Imperialist unions that don't challenge the empire are lap dogs begging for scraps, not any element of communism.
She literally organized a union?.
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The ruling class doesn't need to hide its actions. Its lies are transparent, and their conspiracies all occur out in the open while they deny them on TV.
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I'm pro trade union, but I'm anti Hitlerite labor front.
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This is the imperialist bargain in striking and bald terms - no frills, no disguise, no lie. If you want cheap groceries and comfortable domestic policies, you must support, hands bloodied, the murders of the empire abroad. Anything less, and you get what you deserve.
Kamala Harris says clearly and fairly succinctly that we must accept her sponsorship of the Gaza genocide as a trade off for more affordable groceries
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You realize this just demonstrates that the unions are broken to the wheel of capital and only act within the confines of approved class agitation, right.
When the ILA says that they will continue to handle military cargo during this strike, what they mean is that they have 16 military contracts that contain a No-Strike Pledge, a contractual clause that prohibits any work stoppage. Violation of which would mean loss of employment.
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"But I'm not a revolutionary" - look around. Someone has to do it. "But I don't have what it takes!" - give yourself what it takes. Someone has to do it. "But I'm not one of the most oppressed!" But you realized it must be done. Someone has to do it. Become someone.
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Marxism is *scientific* socialism. It's not stereo instructions. If you treat as a doctrine of beliefs, you destroy it; it becomes brittle and useless.
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CPUSA condemns Hamas, praises zionist "communists," aligns with settlers
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Most of the successful capitalists long ago mastered Marxism and apply it in their work - but against us.
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Every "socialist" arguing for gun control has totally lost the fucking thread. Who enforces gun control laws? POLICE. You don't give the state more tools! Gun control is as helpful as passing a law against the sun, but has the added benefit of weakening the rev movement.
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Nothing but respect for my flag.
Last night, hackers breached the projection on the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and put the Soviet Victory Banner.
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There is now confirmed video of Azov elements of the National Guard in Mariupol opening fire on fleeing civilians to keep them in the city and killing an entire convoy of cars on the road out of Mariupol.
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Armed struggle is actually the highest and sharpest expression of contradiction, and any attempt to skip directly to it will result in annihilation.
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To the liberal, no government has ever been overthrown. No revolution has ever been waged. History is over, and all questions must be sublimated through bourgeois politics.
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