Ok I almost caught up. Just finished reading Chapter 9. I’ll try to do Chapter 10 first sections with next weeks reading.
I had to reread a lot the Senior argument and Marx's answer regarding the last hour. At first I thought Marx was doing exactly the same as Senior in its argument (ie arbitrarily deciding the first hours pay the wage), but then I understood that whereas Marx was using it as a pedagogical tool to show more clearly that there is unpaid labor creating surplus value while still saying that actually every hour of labor actually is actually always fragments of c,v and p. Senior was actually fraudulently trying to assert that profit only actually occurs in the "last hour", thus removing this last hour would remove all the profit.
This is such a diabolical thing from Senior and I actually encounter this kind of argument frequently by capitalists and right wing politicians when arguing against lowering the work day or having a minimum wage, although now they usually present it in a bit of a different form.
When hearing this without thinking too much about it, I can see how you can easily start nodding along even though when prodding it, the argument disintegrates.
Chega is a fucking fascist party and the media class is fully helping them. Worse is that the Portuguese diaspora in my country apparently voted overwhelmingly for them according to a comrade who's in the PCP and was in the electoral bureau to get data from voters after they voted.
They were talking about how chega is restoring Portugal and they are cleaning up immigrants. These are the same people who were treated like shit as immigrant since they came here (they are now used as "model immigrants who share our culture" to attack the more recent black and brown immigrants)
Their parents or themselves literally left their country because they had no water or electricity in their villages due to Salazar policies.