Status Updates From El Capital. Libro primero: ...

Fuck the machines 🤖

Marx lumping women with children when talking about labor made me 🫩 I don't think some of what he said was in relation to women but kids specifically, such as "immature persons" but because of the lumping together Marx sounds as though he is basically saying women are no better than children and shouldn't be working
I disagree with him here

The chapter on Division of Labor and Manufactur(ing)e was a really good one, and it has a lot of great parallels to today. It also brought up a point I was thinking about which is how companies complain about lost profits and lay people off but created the need to hire them through division of labor. However, I find it interesting that Marx entrenches a division between genders at the end of the chapter as "normal"

"Vid varje aktiesvindel vet alla, att ovädret en gång måste bryta lös, men man hoppas att det skall drabba någon annans huvud, sedan man själv uppfångat guldregnet och bragt det i säkerhet. Aprés nous le déluge! det är valspråket för varje kapitalist och varje kapitalistnation."

Älskar när han släpper seriositeten i några rader och bara blir en kaxig och syrlig jävel

Finally get what they mean by abstract/concrete labor now, wow!