• zante@lemmy.wtf
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    2 months ago

    Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

    [Karl Marx]

    I’d be interesting in hearing any defence of what I believe is indefensible.

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      2 months ago

      I’d love the few paragraphs preceding that.

      The sentence makes sense on its own, and i agree with it, but I’d love the surrounding context.

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      Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.

      Same thing really but I really like Fishers incorporation of zombies