• Civility [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    In Capital Marx writes that, like zombies, living labour under capitalism becomes ‘subservient to and led by an alien will and an alien intelligence’. In tandem, the mass of machinery to which workers are subordinated in production assumes the form of an ‘animated monster’, a monstrosity endowed with a soul and intelligence of its own. Factories, machines, assembly-lines, computerised production systems all take on a life of their own, directing the movements of labour, controlling workers as if they were merely inorganic parts of a giant apparatus. As capital assumes the form of ‘a mechanical monster whose body fills whole factories’, workers become ‘conscious organs of the automaton’. This reference to workers as organs of capital, which we also find in other Marxian texts, returns us to the theme of corporeal fragmentation. Labouring for capital, protests Marx, workers become mere appendages of this ‘animated monster’, dismembered body-parts activated by the motions of the grotesque corpus of capital.

    -Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism by David McNally

    Sry for you. I have same curse. No cure yet but read books and find more friends with same curse to feel less sad about it. Maybe join Paladin order or leave for kingdom not ruled by necromancers? idk.

  • DrivebyHaiku [none/use any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    I cast some runes but all they came back with was a pretty explicit message from the ghost of Henri de Saint-Simon not appreciating being called a proto-socialist by “those punk kids” so somehow I think these things are connected…