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zedcell

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  • A.I. "Art" and Fascism

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  • AI art can be cooped so easily by fascists because the art that feeds the models is overwhelmingly cooptable by fascists. The vast majority of artistic output by volume is absolute slop, and AI art is simply a reflection of that reality.

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    Dawg, the western left is so cooked!

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  • There are indeed middle classes.

  • UK is ‘worst country in Europe’ for drug prices, says Mounjaro maker

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  • Here I am two weeks in the future confirming my predictions, as the UK gov is accepting higher drug prices from the US to placate Trump.

  • UK is ‘worst country in Europe’ for drug prices, says Mounjaro maker

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  • I can see Streeting rolling over if the press play this story too much, which would mean saying good bye to price controls on medicines.

  • Chinese carmakers told to improve locking devices for UK market

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  • Yeah we just arrest pensioners and charge them with up to 14 years in prison for holding up cardboard signs!

    Oh and we deep throatedly support a genocidal state, murdering civilians by the 100,000s, but yeah sure China is the real repressive state.

  • Against the superficial materialists

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  • A very enjoyable read, thanks.

  • What shall we do with the lumpen worker?

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  • Zionist Jews get to steal housing and have easy work and access to nice beaches etc. As settlers. The bargain that they have accepted is that they may have to join in on settler terror, and that sometimes there may be backlash if they don't sufficiently crush their enemy. It's not brainwashing. Israeli propaganda is meant to help massage their pathetic egos and give them justifications for being scum, not to brainwash them into being scum.

  • Big Mad

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  • The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism by weapons, material force must be overthrown by material force; but theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses. Theory is capable of gripping the masses as soon as it demonstrates ad hominem, and it demonstrates ad hominem as soon as it becomes radical.

    https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/df-jahrbucher/law-abs.htm - Marx

    To get a better understanding of dialectics and dialectical materialism you can read the CPV's curriculum of the basic principles of Marxism-Leninism:

    https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Curriculum_of_the_Basic_Principles_of_Marxism-Leninism_Part_1

  • Dick Wolff makes a deficit episode and fucks it up again

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  • It would be worth reading that section carefully and studying it with regards the actual functions of money as the universal commodity, and reading the section on Inconvertible Money (paper money with no physical gold backing, fiat). Money fulfils the role of allowing non-money commodities to come face to face with one another as exchange values, fulfilling the C-M-C circuit of commodities. Fiat or not, that's its function behind the mystique, paper or gold.

    For consideration as well is economist Michael Roberts on MMT: https://redsails.org/the-modern-monetary-trick/ who goes into much greater detail than I have on these points.

  • Dick Wolff makes a deficit episode and fucks it up again

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  • I'm not reading Hudson if you've not read Marx tbh.

  • Dick Wolff makes a deficit episode and fucks it up again

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  • Money is still a commodity and its value is still an expression of labour time even considering MMT. That is the problem of MMT and distinctions of fiat currency. The form that money takes is simply obscuring its actual function which is managing the flow of abstract labour time and its exchange.

  • The Fundamental Issue

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  • The culture war is a front of class war.

  • Big Mad

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  • You need to learn more about dialectics and the way that humans create new material conditions out of the creative application of our knowledge and thoughts (the dialectic of theory and practice, the self-actualisation of humanity). Learning political theory and teaching it to other people demonstrably changes the material conditions we live in. If you don't think that is the case, you have a very flimsy understanding of the material.

  • I propose a secondary meaning for RTFM, Read The Fucking Marx

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  • I think he helped give a lot of solid ideas that the system itself could be reformed and reforged

    Bro didn't read the book

  • Marxian analysis of generative AI and LLMs

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  • I should clarify as well, that last sentence is still slightly wrong. If a firm has a first mover advantage in using new technology they can effectively earn excess surplus value off of the difference in productivity between their variable capital and other firms in their branch of production. This doesn't mean that the technology itself is producing surplus value, just that it made the labour employed more productive relative to its competitors.

  • Marxian analysis of generative AI and LLMs

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  • Any machinery including AI is constant capital. Labour is the only thing that can produce surplus value because you can pay a worker enough to keep them alive but their labour produces much more value than it costs. Constant capital is valued based on the crystallised labour held in it, and cannot produce surplus value when all branches of production that can use it are using it.

  • AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

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  • It's Marx's logic actually.

    You fundamentally misunderstand. If a wage worker is paid the exchange value of labour-power I.e the cost to reproduce themselves, at the behest of a capitalist (the work could be in the service sector, like a chef, an artist; it could also be a plumber, and they could ultimately be doing work for consumers like other workers), they produce more value than they are paid for I.e. they produce surplus value.

    A self-employed plumber or a live-in chef working directly for someone with no capitalist middleman, or an artist working for commissions do not produce surplus value. They sell the final product of their labour, not their labour itself, and they charge the going market rate for the product of their labour, not the going market rate for their labour-power by the hour.

    An artist can be proletarian or petit-bourgeois. A chef can also be either, as can a plumber.

    Your time would be better spent reading and studying Capital than professing your shoddy home-baked anti-capitalism online.

  • AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

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  • Art produced for a wage, for a capitalist, is productive labour. Art produced by an individual sold as commissions is not productive, I.e it produces no surplus value, the artist is paid the full value of their labour by the commissioner.

    The artist hired by a capitalist already doesn't own the outputs of their labour, and never has. Quit moralising and go and read a book.

  • AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

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  • I think the division of labour and the distinction of artist should die and that involves a socialism that involves everyone including what passes for artists these days doing work outside of art as required of them. So that everyone can do art instead of having a privileged few (relative to the global majority) that can while away their time making fan art commisions and shit YouTube videos.