doe @exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1885-c2/ch20_01.htm

"It is sheer tautology to say that crises are caused by the scarcity of effective consumption, or of effective consumers. The capitalist system does not know any other modes of consumption than effective ones, except that of paupers or of the swindler.

That commodities are unsaleable means only that no effective purchasers have been found for them, i.e., consumers (since commodities are bought in the final analysis for productive or individual consumption).

But if one were to attempt to give this tautology the semblance of a profounder justification by saying that the working-class receives too small a portion of its own product and the evil would be remedied as soon as it receives a larger share of it and its wages increase in consequence, one could only remark that crises are always prepared by precisely a period in which wages rise generally and the working-class actually gets a larger share of that part of the annual product which is intended for consumption. From the point of view of these advocates of sound and “simple” (!) common sense, such a period should rather remove the crisis.

It appears, then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis." -K. Marx, Capital Vol 2

went to niagara falls today with my pack. id seen the falls themselves once before as a child but i had never walked the length of the park before. watching the water develop as it gets closer and closer to the falls is really incredible. somewhat terrfying...

leaving maine tomorrow and even though every day here was jam packed with seeimg different parts of the area there's still so much i wish i could've seen.

this trip has made me feel so much more love for the vibrant life around us, so many critters and crawlies... i want to find the places near our home that i can love and protect

okay cocaine bear got a couple of full belly laughs out of me

a couple days ago i used the phrase "K-Mart Rouge" in a conversation and i still havent been able to wash the shame off of me

"Following is not at all the same thing as reproducing... Reproducing implies the permanence of a fixed point of view that is external to what is reproduced.

But following is something different from the ideal of reproduction. Not better, just different.

One is obliged to follow when one is in search of the 'singularities' of a matter, or rather of a material, and not out to discover a form."

"The search for laws consists in extracting constants, even if those constants are only relations between variables (equations). An invariable form for variables, a variable matter of the invariant: such is the foundation of the hylomorphic schema.

But for the... nomad science the relevant distinction is material-forces rather than matter-form. Here it is not a question of extracting constants from variables but of placing the variables themselves in a state of continuous variation."

i hurt my back so bad yesterday idek what i did 😭

in a long car ride today, so im re-reading D&Gs nomadology. i forgot how referential so much of it is, so im using it to develop a new reading list after hitting a bit of a wall with the Agamben/Foucault train of thought i was following.

i should really upload some custom emoji here....

i went swimming today for the first time in like a decade and it was so much fun

and my partner found this lil bee snoozin in a big sunflower

yesterday we went to the coast of Maine and found more mushrooms!